NEVER SPEAK TO STRANGERS AND OTHER WRITING FROM RUSSIA AND THE SOVIET UNION

David Satter arrived in the Soviet Union in June 1976 as the correspondent of the Financial Times of London and entered a country that was a giant theater of the absurd. The articles in this collection are a chronicle of Russia from the day Satter arrived in the Soviet Union until the present.

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Main Author: PROF DAVID SATTER
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Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] IBIDEM, 2020.
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505 0 |a Intro -- Abbreviations and Administrative Delineations -- Introduction -- Never Speak to Strangers -- Impressions of Moscow: Beyond the Looking Glass -- Soviets' Long Queue to Nowhere -- Angry Russians Can't Understand Inflation -- The Dissidents Who Strive for Western Freedoms in Russia -- The Ghost in the Machine -- The Price of Respectability -- Taking a Healthy Rest -- The Price of Soviet Achievements -- A Burning Issue -- From Russia Without Love -- Trials of the Workers -- The Price of Calling the Helsinki Bluff -- Shaken, but Ready to Rise Again -- Soviet Dissent and the Cold War 
505 8 |a Why Moscow Has Georgia on Its Mind -- Angry Nationalist Struggle Against Soviet Power -- Afghanistan's Rocky Road to Socialism -- Russia's 'Civilised North' -- Moscow Yields to 'Interference' -- Tensions Between Systems Show at Summit -- Bitter-Sweet Search for Ancestors in Ukraine -- The Crime That Can Only Exist Behind Closed Borders -- Planning and Politics Strangle the Soviet Economy -- Josef Stalin's Legacy Leaves Soviet Leaders in Dilemma -- Sakharov's Arrest Links Dissidence with Detente -- The Limits of Detente -- 200 Soviet Officials Held -- Fighting a War of Shadows 
505 8 |a Moscow Starts 'Phoney War' Over Peace -- Why the Russians Think They Have Taken Schmidt for a Ride -- Russia Through the Looking Glass -- View from Middle Russia -- How the Kremlin Kept Moscow Under Wraps -- Russia Keeping Its Hands off Poland -- Where Some Miners Are More Equal Than Others -- Moscow Weighs Gains and Losses Against Dictates of Ideology -- Soviet Defeat in Poland -- Few Goods in Grocery Store 7 -- The Soviet View of Information -- A Match for the Soviets -- The KGB Puts Down a Marker -- The System of Forced Labor in Russia -- The Soviets Freeze a Peace Worker 
505 8 |a What Russia Tells Russians About Afghanistan -- The Legacy of Leonid Brezhnev -- The Soviets Slam the Door on Jewish Emigration -- Soviet Threat Is One of Ideas More Than Arms -- Treating Soviet Psychiatric Abuse -- The Kremlin Tortures a Psychiatrist -- Yuri Andropov: The Specter Vanishes -- Private Soviet Screenings of Forbidden Films? Insane! -- In New Gulag, Soviets Turning to Murder by Neglect -- Don't Talk with Murderers -- Moscow Feeds a Lap-Dog Foreign Press -- Moscow's 'New Openness' Illusion -- A Test Case -- Why Glasnost Can't Work -- A Journalist Who Loved His Country 
505 8 |a Response to Fukuyama -- Winter in Moscow -- Setting the Sverdlovsk Story Straight -- Moscow Believes in Tears -- The Seeds of Soviet Instability -- Yeltsin: Shadow of a Doubt -- A Tragic Master Plan -- The Failure of Russian Reformers -- Rude Awakening -- Yeltsin: Modified Victory -- Organized Crime Is Smothering Russian Civil Society -- The Wild East -- The Shadow of Aum Shinri Kyo -- The Cost of the Yeltsin Presidency -- The Rise of the Russian Criminal State -- The Human Rights Situation in Russia -- Anatomy of a Massacre -- The Shadow of Ryazan -- Not so Quick -- Death in Moscow 
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