Granta 64

Russia, the largest country in the world, is in crisis. Its society and economy, its currencey and politics are tumbling who knows where. once it demonstrated the fallacies and tragedy of communism. Will it now do the same for modern capitalism? This issue of Granta contains the voices of a people who have suffered under (and coped with) two of this century`s great experiments. Including Victor Pelevin: free-fall in Moscow - Orlando Figes: Tsarism now - Vitali Vitaliev: the vodka escape - Masha Gessen: censoring for Stalin - Andrei Platonov: the soldier`s return - Angus Macqueen: survivors of the Gulag - Colin Thubron: into Siberia. PLUS Barry Unsworth meets Donald Duck in Naples. Underlinings and markings with pen on a few pages, iluustrations in b&w, condition OK.