Walking the Tempests

A journey to the grim Soviet hospitals and new Russian sex clinics, old communal apartments and shaky new suburbs. The author visits decaying Soviet schools and new private academies, families living in toxic industrial towns and ballet masters trying to preserve their art. She interviews working people trying to cope with Mafia thugs, girls looking for a rich husband, and couples looking for an apartment. She also attends a murder trial, watches black marketeers plying their goods, and listens to priests trying to rehabilitate their church which has been suppressed by the communist government.

ISBN	0684809125	Pages	16
ISBN13	9780684809120 (What's this?)	Volumes	001
Publisher	Simon & Schuster Ltd	Weight (grammes)	705
Imprint	Simon & Schuster Ltd	Published in	London
Format	Hardback	Height (mm)	240
Publication date	03 Feb 1997	Width (mm)	160
Library of Congress	DK510.762.	Spine width (mm)	32
DEWEY	947.086	Academic level	General
DEWEY edition	DC20

	Prologue	11
1	Homes for Sale	21
2	Mother Russia	56
3	Health: Living in Soviet Ruins	107
4	Medicine: Do We Have a Future?	129
5	Alternative Medicine: From Herbs to Hocus-Pocus	165
6	Sex: Slaking the Oldest Thirst	185
7	A Stranger in the Family	215
8	Lessons for the Young	237
9	Suffering for Culture: A Ballerina	259
10	The Spiritual Bazaar	293
11	Murder: The People's Justice	331
12	The Wild East	358
	Epilogue	385
	Notes	391
	Notes on Transliteration	411
	Acknowledgments	413
	Index	417

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