The Resource Pravda ha ha : true travels to the end of Europe, Rory MacLean
Pravda ha ha : true travels to the end of Europe, Rory MacLean
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- Summary
- In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. In that euphoric year Rory MacLean travelled from Berlin to Moscow, exploring lands that were - for most Brits and Americans - part of the forgotten half of Europe. Thirty years on, MacLean traces his original journey backwards, across countries confronting old ghosts and new fears: from revanchist Russia, through Ukraine's bloodlands, into illiberal Hungary, and then Poland, Germany and the UK. Along the way he shoulders an AK-47 to go hunting with Moscow's chicken Tsar, plays video games in St Petersburg with a cyber-hacker who cracked the US election, drops by the Che Guevara High School of Political Leadership in a non-existent nowhereland and meets the Warsaw doctor who tried to stop a march of 70,000 nationalists. Finally, on the shores of Lake Geneva, he waits patiently to chat with Mikhail Gorbachev. As Europe sleepwalks into a perilous new age, MacLean explores how opportunists - both within and outside of Russia, from Putin to Home Counties populists - have made a joke of truth, exploiting refugees and the dispossessed, and examines the veracity of historical narrative from reportage to fiction and fake news. He asks what happened to the optimism of 1989 and, in the shadow of Brexit, chronicles the collapse of the European dream
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 343 pages
- Contents
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- Russia : Under Moscow ; Over Russia ; Putin's pecker ; Russia, my Russia ; Terrible beauty ; Tell me another one ; Stranger in Moscow ; Beat it ; Tentacles ; Under the skin ; Lies lies lies ; Sunday in St. Petersburg ; Cold War 2.0 ; Party party (like it's 1969) ; Beauty and the beast ; Angels ; London road
- Estonia : Home ; Soviet secret barbecue society
- Kalingrad : Others
- Transnistria : Back in the USSR ; Fear is a habit
- Ukraine : Theatre of bad dreams ; All that glitters
- Hungary : Not quite spring ; Altogether now ; Down and out in Buda and Kispet
- Poland : Independence day ; Devil's domain ; Dementia
- Germany : Beyond the horizon ; Odysseys ; Wir sind das Volk
- Switzerland : Waiting for Gorby
- Britain : Jolly ol' England ; Fog in the channel
- Isbn
- 9781408896525
- Label
- Pravda ha ha : true travels to the end of Europe
- Title
- Pravda ha ha
- Title remainder
- true travels to the end of Europe
- Statement of responsibility
- Rory MacLean
- Subject
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- trueEurope -- Description and travel
- trueEurope -- History -- 1989-
- trueFormer Soviet republics -- Description and travel
- MacLean, Rory, 1954- -- Travel -- Europe
- MacLean, Rory, 1954- -- Travel -- Germany | Berlin
- MacLean, Rory, 1954- -- Travel -- Russia (Federation)
- truePost-communism
- Russia (Federation) -- History -- 1991-
- trueRussia -- Description and travel
- trueSoviet Union -- History -- 1985-1991
- Travel writing
- trueVoyages and travels
- trueEastern Europe -- Description and travel
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. In that euphoric year Rory MacLean travelled from Berlin to Moscow, exploring lands that were - for most Brits and Americans - part of the forgotten half of Europe. Thirty years on, MacLean traces his original journey backwards, across countries confronting old ghosts and new fears: from revanchist Russia, through Ukraine's bloodlands, into illiberal Hungary, and then Poland, Germany and the UK. Along the way he shoulders an AK-47 to go hunting with Moscow's chicken Tsar, plays video games in St Petersburg with a cyber-hacker who cracked the US election, drops by the Che Guevara High School of Political Leadership in a non-existent nowhereland and meets the Warsaw doctor who tried to stop a march of 70,000 nationalists. Finally, on the shores of Lake Geneva, he waits patiently to chat with Mikhail Gorbachev. As Europe sleepwalks into a perilous new age, MacLean explores how opportunists - both within and outside of Russia, from Putin to Home Counties populists - have made a joke of truth, exploiting refugees and the dispossessed, and examines the veracity of historical narrative from reportage to fiction and fake news. He asks what happened to the optimism of 1989 and, in the shadow of Brexit, chronicles the collapse of the European dream
- Biography type
- autobiography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10828048
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1954-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- MacLean, Rory
- Dewey number
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- 914.704
- 914.04561092
- Illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- DJK19
- LC item number
- .M33 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- True
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- MacLean, Rory
- MacLean, Rory
- MacLean, Rory
- Europe
- Europe
- Soviet Union
- Russia (Federation)
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- true travels to the end of Europe
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- Pravda ha ha : true travels to the end of Europe, Rory MacLean
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- Contents
- Russia : Under Moscow ; Over Russia ; Putin's pecker ; Russia, my Russia ; Terrible beauty ; Tell me another one ; Stranger in Moscow ; Beat it ; Tentacles ; Under the skin ; Lies lies lies ; Sunday in St. Petersburg ; Cold War 2.0 ; Party party (like it's 1969) ; Beauty and the beast ; Angels ; London road -- Estonia : Home ; Soviet secret barbecue society -- Kalingrad : Others -- Transnistria : Back in the USSR ; Fear is a habit -- Ukraine : Theatre of bad dreams ; All that glitters -- Hungary : Not quite spring ; Altogether now ; Down and out in Buda and Kispet -- Poland : Independence day ; Devil's domain ; Dementia -- Germany : Beyond the horizon ; Odysseys ; Wir sind das Volk -- Switzerland : Waiting for Gorby -- Britain : Jolly ol' England ; Fog in the channel
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 343 pages
- Isbn
- 9781408896525
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)on1102477540
- Label
- Pravda ha ha : true travels to the end of Europe, Rory MacLean
- Carrier category
- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- cartographic image
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- txt
- cri
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- Contents
- Russia : Under Moscow ; Over Russia ; Putin's pecker ; Russia, my Russia ; Terrible beauty ; Tell me another one ; Stranger in Moscow ; Beat it ; Tentacles ; Under the skin ; Lies lies lies ; Sunday in St. Petersburg ; Cold War 2.0 ; Party party (like it's 1969) ; Beauty and the beast ; Angels ; London road -- Estonia : Home ; Soviet secret barbecue society -- Kalingrad : Others -- Transnistria : Back in the USSR ; Fear is a habit -- Ukraine : Theatre of bad dreams ; All that glitters -- Hungary : Not quite spring ; Altogether now ; Down and out in Buda and Kispet -- Poland : Independence day ; Devil's domain ; Dementia -- Germany : Beyond the horizon ; Odysseys ; Wir sind das Volk -- Switzerland : Waiting for Gorby -- Britain : Jolly ol' England ; Fog in the channel
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 343 pages
- Isbn
- 9781408896525
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)on1102477540
Subject
- trueEurope -- Description and travel
- trueEurope -- History -- 1989-
- trueFormer Soviet republics -- Description and travel
- MacLean, Rory, 1954- -- Travel -- Europe
- MacLean, Rory, 1954- -- Travel -- Germany | Berlin
- MacLean, Rory, 1954- -- Travel -- Russia (Federation)
- truePost-communism
- Russia (Federation) -- History -- 1991-
- trueRussia -- Description and travel
- trueSoviet Union -- History -- 1985-1991
- Travel writing
- trueVoyages and travels
- trueEastern Europe -- Description and travel
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