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Border : a journey around Russia : through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway and the Northeast Passage / Erika Fatland ; translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson.
"The acclaimed author of Sovietistan travels along the seemingly endless Russian border and reveals the deep and pervasive influence it has had across half the globe."--Book jacket.
Imperial, communist or autocratic, Russia has always been a towering and intimidating neighbor. What would it be like to traverse the entirety of the Russian periphery to examine its effects on those closest to her? Fatland has created a book about Russia-- without ever entering Russia itself. He gets to the heart of what it has meant to be the neighbor of that mighty, expanding empire throughout history, as readers experience the colorful, exciting, tragic and often unbelievable histories of these bordering nations along with their cultures, their people, their landscapes. -- adapted from jacket.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781643136561
- ISBN: 1643136569
- Physical Description: 611 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Pegasus Books, Ltd., 2021.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | First published in the Norwegian language as Grensen by Kagge Forlag in 2017. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The ocean -- Asia -- The Caucasus -- Europe -- Brief outline of the history of Russia. |
| Language Note: | In English, translated from the Norwegian. |
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| Genre: | Travel writing. Travel writing. Travel writing. |
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The Border : A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, and the Northeast Passage
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Table of Contents
The Border : A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, and the Northeast Passage
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| List of Illustrations | p. xi | |
| The Ocean | ||
| Map of Russia's Coast | p. 2-3 | |
| Arctic Summer | p. 5 | |
| Asia | ||
| Map of Russia's Border with Asia | p. 46-7 | |
| Map of North and South Korea | p. 48 | |
| The Art of Bowing without Bowing Down | p. 49 | |
| Great Leaders | p. 68 | |
| A Sensitive Matter | p. 79 | |
| Capitalism Lite | p. 93 | |
| The Rusty Friendship Bridge | p. 103 | |
| 203 Hill | p. 108 | |
| The Orient's Moscow | p. 120 | |
| Restaurant Putin | p. 131 | |
| Disney on the Border | p. 139 | |
| A Living God, a Mad Baron and a Red Hero | p. 142 | |
| World Rulers | p. 151 | |
| In the Ruins of a Thousand Treasures | p. 164 | |
| Hermits of the Taiga | p. 171 | |
| Ninja Miners | p. 184 | |
| No Foreigners | p. 193 | |
| Back in the U.S.S.R. | p. 210 | |
| In the Realm of the Bears | p. 218 | |
| City of the Future | p. 230 | |
| Bowling in Baikonur | p. 241 | |
| The Caucasus | ||
| Map of Russia's Border with the Caucasus | p. 254-5 | |
| To Wonderland | p. 257 | |
| Mr President and Mrs Vice-President | p. 271 | |
| The Black Mountain Garden | p. 280 | |
| Singalong on the Border | p. 293 | |
| No-Man | p. 307 | |
| Stalin's Paradise | p. 320 | |
| Europe | ||
| Map of Russia's Border with Europe | p. 336-7 | |
| The Inhospitable Sea | p. 339 | |
| Quality Swedish Tea | p. 350 | |
| The Wart on Russia's Nose | p. 357 | |
| The Youngest Breakaway Republic in the World | p. 374 | |
| Express Train to Kiev | p. 389 | |
| Group Tour to Chernobyl | p. 405 | |
| Borderland | p. 416 | |
| The People who Disappeared | p. 425 | |
| A Trip to the Dacha that Changed the World | p. 443 | |
| Lines in the Sand | p. 456 | |
| The Master Race | p. 470 | |
| Unrest | p. 480 | |
| A Lesson in Liberation | p. 487 | |
| The Monument War | p. 495 | |
| The Outpost | p. 505 | |
| The Field Marshal | p. 512 | |
| A Lesson in the Value of Maintenance | p. 532 | |
| Lapland | p. 543 | |
| The Border | p. 551 | |
| Map of Finnmark | p. 553 | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 585 | |
| Brief Outline of the History of Russia | p. 589 | |
| Notes | p. 596 | |
| Epigraphs | p. 598 | |
| Bibliography | p. 599 | |
| Index | p. 603 |
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