num_pages: 256
description: At age twenty-five, Andrea Lee joined her husband, a Harvard doctoral candidate in Russian history, for his eight months’ study at Moscow State University and an additional two months in Leningrad. Published to enormous critical acclaim in 1981, Russian Journal is the award-winning author’s penetrating, vivid account of her everyday life as an expatriate in Soviet culture, chronicling her fascinating exchanges with journalists, diplomats, and her Soviet contemporaries. The winner of the Jean Stein Award from the National Academy of Arts and Letters–and the book that launched Lee’s career as a writer–Russian Journal is a beautiful and clear-eyed travel-writing classic.
language: English
title: Russian Journal
titlecomplete: Russian Journal
genres: Soviet Union, History, Travel, African American, Russia, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 183
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: General Nonfiction (Hardcover)
publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks