Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav Zubok (paperback) weidenfeld & nicolson and peasants

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Polishchuk worked as a journalist for Russian state-run media and at Asia and Africa Today

fierce social commentary and razor-sharp wit

For fans of Anthony Marra's A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and Téa Obreht's The Tiger's Wife: the kidnapping of two small girls on a remote peninsula in Russia sets in motion an evocative

Something of a modern-day Don Quixote

Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav Zubok (paperback) weidenfeld & nicolson and peasantsShortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2022 In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four million strong with five thousand nuclear tipped missiles and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world. But soon afterward the union sank into an economic crisis and was torn apart by nationalist separatism. Its collapse was one of the seismic shifts of the