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Russian Journal

by Andrea Lee · 1981

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At age twenty-five, Andrea Lee joined her husband, a Harvard doctoral candidate in Russian history, for his eight months' study at Moscow State University and an additional two months in Leningrad. Published to enormous critical acclaim in 1981, Russian Journalis the award-winning author's penetrating, vivid account of her everyday life as an expatriate in Soviet culture, chronicling her fascinating exchanges with journalists, diplomats, and her Soviet contemporaries. The winner of the Jean Stein Award from the National Academy of Arts and Letters-and the book that launched Lee's career as a writer-Russian Journal is a beautiful and clear-eyed travel-writing classic.

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traveltravelMore like thisLess of thisbiographybiographyMore like thisLess of this
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African AmericanAfrican AmericanMore like thisLess of thistraveltravelMore like thisLess of this
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1970s1970sMore like thisLess of this20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisRussiaRussiaMore like thisLess of thisEastern EuropeEastern EuropeMore like thisLess of thisSoviet UnionSoviet UnionMore like thisLess of this
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adult
Length
medium · 256 pages

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