From the Yaroslavsky Station: Russia Perceived

by Elizabeth Pond

Book Overview

Here is the eagerly awaited third edition of the book Harrison Salisbury called "a magnificent portrait of contemporary Russia." Veteran journalist Elizabeth Pond has brought her invaluable text completely up to date to include current developments in the politics, leadership, and society of the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev. From Moscow to the eastern edge of Siberia, Pond reports on such topics as the intelligentsia, the economic position...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876633688
• ISBN13: 9780876633687
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A superb description of the pre-collapse Soviet Union

This is a beautifully written, truly wonderful book. Ms. Pond took a train trip on the Trans-Siberian railroad, and wrote fascinating and erudite vignettes based loosely on each of her stops, from Moscow to the far East.I've read widely about Communism. But I must say that, with the exception of Solzhenitsyn's works and Edmund Wilson's To the Finland Station, I have never read any book that contributed as much to my understanding of this morally bankrupt, dying empire.