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Summary:

"The acclaimed author of Sovietistan travels along the seemingly endless Russian border and reveals the deep and pervasive influence it has had across half the globe."--Jacket
Imperial, communist or autocratic, Russia has always been a towering and intimidating neighbor. What would it be like to traverse the entirety of the Russian periphery to examine its effects on those closest to her? Fatland has created a book about Russia-- without ever entering Russia itself. He gets to the heart of what it has meant to be the neighbor of that mighty, expanding empire throughout history, as readers experience the colorful, exciting, tragic and often unbelievable histories of these bordering nations along with their cultures, their people, their landscapes. -- adapted from jacket

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: OCEAN
• Map of Russia's Coast
• Arctic Summer
• ASIA
• Map of Russia's Border with Asia
• Map of North and South Korea
• Art of Bowing without Bowing Down
• Great Leaders
• Sensitive Matter
• Capitalism Lite
• Rusty Friendship Bridge
• 03 Hill
• Orient's Moscow
• Restaurant Putin
• Disney on the Border
• Living God, a Mad Baron and a Red Hero
• World Rulers
• In the Ruins of a Thousand Treasures
• Hermits of the Taiga
• Ninja Miners

• No Foreigners
• Back in the U.S.S.R.
• In the Realm of the Bears
• City of the Future
• Bowling in Baikonur
• CAUCASUS
• Map of Russia's Border with the Caucasus
• To Wonderland
• Mr President and Mrs Vice-President
• Black Mountain Garden
• Singalong on the Border
• No-Man
• Stalin's Paradise
• EUROPE
• Map of Russia's Border with Europe
• Inhospitable Sea
• Quality Swedish Tea
• Wart on Russia's Nose
• Youngest Breakaway Republic in the World
• Express Train to Kiev
• Group Tour to Chernobyl
• Borderland
• People who Disappeared
• Trip to the Dacha that Changed the World
• Lines in the Sand
• Master Race
• Unrest
• Lesson in Liberation
• Monument War
• Outpost
• Field Marshal
• Lesson in the Value of Maintenance
• Lapland
• Border
• Map of Finnmark.

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Author/Creator:

Fatland, Erika, 1983- , author

Contributors:

Dickson, Kari , translator

Languages:

English
Norwegian

Language Notes:

In English, translated from Norwegian.

Main Work:

Grensen [by Fatland, E.] (English)

Subjects:

Fatland, Erika, 1983- — Travel

Soviet Union — Foreign relations

Russia (Federation) — Foreign relations

Russia (Federation) — Description and travel

Korea (North) — Description and travel

China — Description and travel

Mongolia — Description and travel

Kazakhstan — Description and travel

Azerbaijan — Description and travel

Georgia (Republic) — Description and travel

Ukraine — Description and travel

Belarus — Description and travel

Lithuania — Description and travel

Poland — Description and travel

Latvia — Description and travel

Estonia — Description and travel

Finland — Description and travel

Norway — Description and travel

Northeast Passage — Description and travel

General Notes:

Originally published in the Norwegian language as Grensen by Kagge Forlag in 2017.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

DK66 .F3813 2021eb

ISBNs:

9781643136578 (electronic bk.)
1643136577 (electronic bk.)
9781643136561 [Invalid]
1643136569 [Invalid]
9781643139494 [Invalid]
1643139495 [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

International Article Number: 9781643136561

OCLC Numbers:

1341353718

Other Control Numbers:

EBC6459636 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp301888159