I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country

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"Elena Kostyuchenko is an important guide to the 21st century." —Timothy Snyder, author of The Road to Unfreedom"A fascinating, frightening, compulsively readable chronicle of life in Putin's Russia.... Her stories are unforgettable, and deeply important.&” ― Carol Off, author of All We Leave Behind &“Would you like to know where Putin comes from? What the Russians are like today? And why? Read this book." ― Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureTo be a journalist is to tell the truth.I Love Russia is Elena Kostyuchenko's fearless attempt to document Putin's Russia as experienced by those it systematically and brutally erases: village girls recruited into sex work, queer people in the outer provinces; patients and doctors in a Ukrainian maternity ward; and reporters like herself, at risk not only because of her work but because she lived openly as a queer woman and LGBTQ activist in a deeply homophobic state. It takes us to places that non-Russians have never seen and brings us voices we have never heard.At once uncompromising and deeply humane, her book stitches together reportage and personal essays into a kaleidoscopic, often otherworldly journey. Here is Russia as it is, not as we imagine it.I Love Russia may be the last work from her homeland Kostyuchenko will publish for a long time—perhaps ever. She writes as she does, because she is driven by the conviction that the greatest form of love and patriotism is criticism. And because the threat of Putin's Russia extends beyond herself, beyond Crimea and beyond Ukraine.
Copyright:
2023

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
384 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781039008823
Related ISBNs:
9781039008816
Publisher:
Random House of Canada
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Copyrighted By:
Elena Kostyuchenko
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Communication, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Translator:
Bela Shayevich
Translator:
Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse

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