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My Life With Mother Russia

Jahn Otto Johansen sums up his relationship with Russia, an affair that has been going on for fifty years. He takes the reader along on his memorable travels in this vast realm that stretches over eleven time zones, and sprinkles it with history and debates about the political development in both the Soviet Union and the new Russia. More recent events are also discussed, like the tense relation to Ukraine and Georgia. Art, literature and religion, that have found distinctive expressions in Russia, have been thouroughly treated in this book. Johansen gives us a good basis for understanding “the Russian soul”.

First published: 2009, Aschehoug Non-Fiction
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