The good Russian : in search of a nation's soul
Bakunina, Jana2025
Books, Manuscripts
Find it!
When Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the writer Jana Bakunina, who has lived in the UK for 20 years, felt furious, ashamed, but most of all helpless. A year later she travelled to her home city of Yekaterinburg to see how ordinary Russians viewed the conflict - and whether the soul of her nation had truly been crushed. Jana finds a booming city seemingly untouched by war. Reconnecting with old friends, she discovers people either happy to go along with a regime that has brought them stability, or else staying out of politics. Most painful of all, her once liberal father has channelled his personal disappointments into becoming a firm fan of Putin. In the grand humane tradition of Russian dissident writers, Jana Bakunina grapples with a universal problem: what happens when a country you love becomes infected by nationalism?
Main title:
The good Russian : in search of a nation's soul / Jana Bakunina.
Author:
Bakunina, Jana, author
Imprint:
London : The Bridge Street Press, 2025.
Collation:
208 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780349136585 (hbk)
Dewey class:
947.086092947.086B-BAK
LC class:
DK510.766.B3
Language:
English
BRN:
4276402
More Information: