An essential guide to the strange, sinister culture ofcontemporary Russia. When Jonathan Fink studied Russiain university in the 1990s he developed a passion for thecountry that seemed under Boris Yeltsin to throw off theshackles of repression. Thirty years later, he set out touncover through interviews the real heart of Russia, a country besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seatedparanoia, where crime is scarcely ever met withpunishment. This eminently readable book shows thatneed to look at the Kremlin’s deeds and ignore theirwords as a rule to get to the truth.
