Title

Waking the tempests : ordinary life in the new Russia

Description

After communism in the Soviet Union came chaos. Ordinary Russians, liberated from a controlled and communal society, woke up in 1992 to a life that seemed to have no rules. For some, the new disorder offered possibilities--to get rich, to enjoy the excesses of life without a brutal government intervening. For others, it has been a time to worship or create freely, or to leave the country altogether. For many, however, freedom is like being abandoned without a guidebook. Randolph takes us to hospitals and sex clinics, to old communal apartments and new suburbs, to decrepit schools and new private academies. She interviews ballerinas and priests, murderers and ordinary people fighting a tidal wave of crime. She talks with young men and old women, doctors and conjurers, real estate brokers and newly converted businessmen--all trying to cope in a world where the rules changed virtually overnight.--From publisher description.

Identifier

613673

684809125

Creator

Randolph, Eleanor

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1996

Program air date: July 21, 1996

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front endpapers: Arrived 1991. Victoria-are you crying. Peter Pringle. 1. Katya and Pavel p. 43; 2. Olga Podolskaya p. 59 the troika; 3. Chapayevsk-Kathy Lally p. 111; 4. Dr. Stepanov-Catherine's Hospital p. 138; 5. Yakov Galperin p. 170-home remedies; 6. Dr. Igor Kon p. 195 sex expert; 7. city Ivanovo-Zhenya-lesbian p 228; 8. Valentina Stepanovna Popova p. 238 Detsky Sad 1179 cheating; 9. Masha Ivanova, p. 260-Ballerina; 10. Billy Graham/Father Nikolai Great White Brotherhood p. 293; 11. Yuri and Elena/the Butyrskaya prison, p. 331; 12. Sergei Mavrodi MMM p. 358 John LeCarre. 1. Our own dacha; 2. train trip to the Arctic Circle. 1. the horse-six lane highway; 2. Bridal agency; 3. Mafiya; 4. Estee Lauder. Lamb checks chapter titles on the contents page. Underlinings/Notes: Underlinings: Russians, Russian mind-set. Lamb underlines encounters with common Russians, examples of daily events, ways people made a living, families, work, hospitality, women in society, medical care, gays, education." Notes: "Peter Pringle, Victoria," "11 X zones, 148 mil," "first homeless person," "home sales pitch," "$300,000 house," "my apartment," "park dirty," "my weekend Dacha," "babushkas," "sour smelling milk," "the troika," "capitalism," "bread price 91-93,""Freedom," "heart attack," "no panhandling in 1991," "bridal agency," "hookers," "no SPCA," "cats," "life expectancy," "'bad' water, food, air," "Feshbach," "In Soviet days," "vodka," "drunk truck," "antibiotics worked overnight," "dirty, underequipped," "home remedies," "women in birth," "don't write about this," "onion juice," "urine," "1st sex shop 1992," "my husband's posters," "censors," "ask friends about sex," "birth control pills are wrong," "abortion rate," "Igor Kon," "lacked info on sex," "a film," "10% of world's abortions," "1976-1991 1% to 28% sex before 17," "article 121," "homosexuals closet or prison," "1991 city of Ivanovo," "Sarah Wieben," "cheating,""Natalia," "life on the streets," "street selling," "girls wouldn't talk," "all religions aren't equal," "Jews," "L.Ron Hubbard," "Billy Graham, 1500 billboards," "trains 8500 people," "came for the show," "awakening," "Great White Brotherhood," "6 women," "jury trials," "French system," "large cage," "what need do you have here?" "1995 small time criminals," "jury system," "more murders," "1991 lawless society," "Elena," "17,000 apts gone," "Mavrodi ponzi scheme," "His 23 yr old wife," "respect for law," "vodka," "ballpoint pen," "2600 gang groups," "John LeCarre," "gangland killings," "kiosks," "smokers," "stolen tulips," "Estee Lauder," "workers 86% private."

Subject

"Randolph, Eleanor--Travel--Russia (Federation)"

"Post-communism--Russia (Federation)"

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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