Moscow Days (1996)

Galina Dutkina

Year:	1996
Authors:	Galina Dutkina
Publishers:	Kodansha
Pages:	264
Print type:	BOOK

Description:

In the first book by a Russian to detail everyday life in the post-Soviet era, Dutkina describes Moscow's newly rich, newly poor, and those caught in between. She tells of struggling Russian youths, increasingly violent gang members, conniving beggars, the new Russian intelligentsia, mafiosos-turned-politicians, and ailing pensioners who cannot afford doctors. She shows us the food stores bare of Russian staples such as beef or fish but crammed with French bonbons.