A review by sadpear
I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country by Elena Kostyuchenko

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

The mix of reportage and memoir provides a window on growing up in the post Soviet era, of how belief is born, shattered and remade. It recalls the oral histories of Svetlana Alexeivich and pays tribute to the thankless, necessary work of Novaya Gazeta. Even for readers who have a strong background in the challenges and problems of modern Russia under Putin this book is devastating. 
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