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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876635362
• ISBN13: 9780876635360
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 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.