Written in the '80s about Thubron's road trip through the old Soviet Union, and while so much has changed since the Iron Curtain came down, his insights and analysis still make for a cracking read. He covers the suffocating bureacracy of the communist system, the ethnic tensions in the Baltic, the Caucasus and the tragedies of Belarus and Ukraine in the two world wars and since. Brilliant on the role of the church and its complicity with communism too
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