For almost 25 years anne garrels was the senior foreign correspondent for npr, reporting from russia and the other former soviet republics, the former yugoslavia, the middle east, china, mongolia, and iraq. Veteran foreign correspondent anne garrels takes us deep inside. Garrels won a courage in journalism award from the international womens media foundation in 2003. I was looking for a book to learn more about russia. Farrar, straus and giroux, 2016 american media correspondent anne garrels began visiting chelyabinsk more than twenty years ago, and centers her observations of russian life around that city with the. A journey into the real russia by anne garrels at indigo.
Steve inskeep talks with former npr foreign correspondent anne garrels about her new book putin country. Longtime npr correspondent garrels takes readers to the real russia in her new book, putin country. Anne garrels, author of putin country steve inskeep talks with former npr foreign correspondent anne garrels about her new book putin country. Former npr foreign correspondent garrels naked in baghdad. She speaks fluent russian, and has developed lasting relationships with the people of the region. Longtime npr correspondent anne garrels examines the way many russians have. But russians themselves will tell you that the real russia lies elsewhere, in the villages of russias heartland. A journey into the real russia, about the rise of russian president vladimir putin and the changes in russia over her time covering the country. She provides a pleasant reading voice for the audible edition. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read putin country.
Join nprs anne garrels as she travels through the provinces of russia, searching for the soul of a people. Shortlisted for the pushkin house russian book prizemore than twenty years ago, the npr correspondent anne garrels first visited chelyabinsk, a gritty. This book persuasively asserts that too little has changed in russia. A journey into the real russia with farrar, straus, and giroux isbn 9780374247720. The longtime home of the soviet nuclear program, the chelyabinsk. Anne garrels s gripping account of people in russias heartland is a fascinating book. Putin country offers a glimpse inside real russia veteran foreign correspondent anne garrels takes us deep inside russia, where citizens struggle with a. Anne garrels is a former foreign correspondent for npr and the author of naked in baghdad. View anne garrels profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Shortlisted for the pushkin house russian book prize more than twenty years ago, the npr correspondent anne garrels first visited chelyabinsk, a gritty militaryindustrial center a thousand miles east of moscow. Anne garrels, a former npr correspondent, has been covering the ussr and russia for about 40 years. A journey into the real russia, by anne garrels picador, 2017.
Unfortunately, i found the interview fascinating and the book somewhat tedious. This book is a joy to read, and each chapter is prefaced with humorous soviet proverbs, sayings, and selfaware jokes. Anne garrels, author of naked in baghdad and putin country. More than twenty years ago, the npr correspondent anne garrels first visited chelyabinsk, a gritty. It is where retired foreign correspondent anne garrels, an old hand at reporting on the new russia, went to rub shoulders with the citizens, see. Anne garrels is also the author of naked in baghdad. Putin country shortlisted for the pushkin house russian book prizemore than twenty years ago, the npr correspondent anne garrels first visited chelyabinsk, a gritty militaryindustrial center a thousand miles east of moscow. Anne garrelss gripping account of people in russias heartland is a fascinating book. Anne garrels is a correspondent for foreign affairs in npr with six videos in the cspan video library. Former npr correspondent anne garrels first visited chelyabinsk almost 20 years ago. Swedes, germans, poles, lithuanians, napoleon, finns and hitler have all had a go at russia and all left a legacy of great suffering and misery. The longtime home of the soviet nuclear program, the chelyabinsk region contained beautiful lakes, shuttered factories, mysterious closed cities, and some of the most polluted.
The longtime home of the soviet nuclear program, the chelyabinsk region. Shes written a book about a russian city and region near the urals in. She arrived in baghdad six months before the 2003 u. Documentary read or listen to the onehour radio documentary. Shortlisted for the pushkin house russian book prizemore than twenty years ago, the npr correspondent anne garrels first visited chelyabinsk, a gritty milit. Listening to an interview with anne garrels about her brand new book, putin country, on fresh air at the same time i was coincidentally taking classes on the cold war and the history of russia, i thought i would love it. A dynamic description of post soviet russia this book is the culmination of anne garrels almost forty years of reporting on the former soviet union and now an independent russia. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover annes. The book is a dynamic account of the lifestyle of russians. A journey into the real russia, an insiders account to take. Garrels wanted to cover how the area was doing in the wake of the collapse of the soviet union. Garrels finds the russians sick and tired of being blamed by the world community e. Putin country tries to explain the admiration russians have for putin. It is essential reading for those who wish to understand putins russia.
More than twenty years ago, the npr correspondent anne garrels first visited chelyabinsk, a gritty militaryindustrial center a thousand miles east of moscow. At its high point the book describes the streets, the buldings, peoples interactions, etc. Narrative snapshots over several decades of a russia riven by contradictions, aspirations, and entrenched defenses. She has russian friends who both respect and trust her. Anne garrels audio books, best sellers, author bio. Shortlisted for the pushkin house russian book prizemore than twenty years ago, the npr correspondent anne garrels first visited chelyabinsk, a gritty militaryindustrial center a thousand miles east of moscow. Theres a world of new ideas in every books newsletter. Coming as yet another publication in a bout of renewed interest on contemporary russia, putin country gives the reader at once an ordinary and original perspective. It shows us a different russia from the one most observers see in moscow and st. During the last decades of the soviet union, chelyabinsk was the home of the nuclear program. A journey into the real russia ebook written by anne garrels. While reading the russians youll laugh, youll cry, and youll learn more about brezhnevera soviet society than you ever thought possible. Anne garrels, as a journalist for npr, traveled to russia many times over two decades as the country opened to the world, at times embracing and rejecting western economic and political influences. The five books on russia you should read providence.
No ones mind will be changed by karls book, but its a valuable report from the scene of an ongoing train wreck. Anne garrels portrait of the midsize city of chelyabinsk and how it is faring in the new russia a revealing look into the lives of ordinary russians. A journey into the real russia anne garrels picador. Author anne garrels discusses her work as a reporter and. More than twenty years ago, when npr correspondent anne garrels firs. Christopher littlecourtesy of farrar, straus and giroux on how putin played on russian identity. Every bit of this shows in the depth of writing and analysis in putin country. A journey into the real russia and former npr correspondent, will visit columbus and the campus of ohio state on april 6 and 7 to deliver the keynote address of the 2017 midwest slavic conference, organized by the center for slavic and east european studies csees and the midwest slavic association. The iraq war as seen by nprs correspondent anne garrels, 2003 offers finely delineated, meticulously researched dispatches from a region in russia that seemed to her both typical of a certain russian provincialism. Anne garrels has covered russia as a correspondent for many years. More than twenty years ago, the npr correspondent anne garrels first visited. Shortlisted for the pushkin house russian book prize. Putin country by anne garrels was recommended to me.
98 1368 1403 870 680 531 901 431 11 868 776 668 692 482 1511 1555 1212 1487 694 678 951 469 998 1542 1234 1476 939 18 846 907 55 1 151 681