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Small Fires: Letters from the Soviet People to Ogonyok Magazine, 1987-1990
Small Letters from the Soviet People to Ogonyok Magazine, 1987-1990 Christopher Cerf and Marina Small Letters from the Soviet People to Ogonyok Magazine, 1987-1990 Summit FIRST First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Summit Books, 1990. Octavo. Paperback. Book is like new. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.Seller 330006 History We Buy Books! Collections - Libraries - Estates - Individual Titles. Message us if you have books to sell!
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First published January 1, 1990
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September 2, 2013
I remember a little bit of the Cold War. I was just a kid, but my family lived in Europe next to the Iron Curtain. The USSR constantly popped up in the news, but I knew very little about life there. I only heard stories, most of them heavily dosed with a subtext of "life is pretty dull, oppressive and horrible under communism". It was as if the USSR existed on a different planet.
This book lifted the curtain of my ignorance a little bit. Small Fires is a collection of letters to the editor for a progressive magazine, all in the several years before communism's fall. The letters give a phenomenal look into what was important and controversial, not to people in Western democratic countries, but to regular people in the USSR. On the other side of the Iron Curtain, New York & California & England become Latvia & Azerbaijan & Yugoslavia. People debate corruption and government transparency. They detail their frustration with trying to move or find a house. They grapple with ethnic tension. They argue about changes to government, those that would eventually bring about the breakup of the country.
The book is a gritty, all-inclusive look at life in the USSR, showing both the important, big-picture issues and the little, everyday ones. And although it was written to fascinate people in the early 1990s, it still remains interesting today.
This book lifted the curtain of my ignorance a little bit. Small Fires is a collection of letters to the editor for a progressive magazine, all in the several years before communism's fall. The letters give a phenomenal look into what was important and controversial, not to people in Western democratic countries, but to regular people in the USSR. On the other side of the Iron Curtain, New York & California & England become Latvia & Azerbaijan & Yugoslavia. People debate corruption and government transparency. They detail their frustration with trying to move or find a house. They grapple with ethnic tension. They argue about changes to government, those that would eventually bring about the breakup of the country.
The book is a gritty, all-inclusive look at life in the USSR, showing both the important, big-picture issues and the little, everyday ones. And although it was written to fascinate people in the early 1990s, it still remains interesting today.
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