Little Tenement on the Volga

By C.S. Walton

Offers an account of life in post-Soviet Russia which shows how much was changed for this nation, in transition. This book conveys the day-to-day life of endless queues for the toilet, to buy scarce... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1891053787
• ISBN13: 9781891053788
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Garrett County Press
• Length: 147 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.4" x 5.6"

Customer Reviews

Economic Freedom Means You Have to Work!

In Little House on the Prairie, the men took pride in working hard and setting the example. In Little Tenement on the Volga, the men don't do much. It seems that in the Soviet era, the only good thing was guaranteed jobs/housing, even if they weren't very good. After the Soviet Union collapsed, those guarantees were gone. The freedom to live as you wanted came with a price, and the price was no more freebees. It also seems that until the Soviet breakup, there was a culture of male unemployment. While women were found in many traditionally-male jobs like construction, farming, and truck driving, the men were at home drinking vodka. Maybe that's why so many Russian and Ukrainian women leave Russia to marry fat ugly American men?

Excellent book!

If you want a glimpse of post-Soviet Russia, this is the author's experience living in one of thousands of tenements in a former factory town on the Volga river. Excellent insight and cultural perspective.