Witness to disintegration
Subtitle: provincial life in the last year of the USSR
By: Walter L. Hixson.
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Hanover
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Hixson, Walter L. -- Travel -- Soviet Union.; Soviet Union -- Description and travel.
Description: Whether relating his experience of standing in bread lines in Kazan, a city once closed to Westerners, attending a Tatar wedding in a remote village, or delivering lectures to students and professors enthralled by the glitter of Western consumer culture, Hixson balances his respect for the people of the USSR with outrage at their appalling circumstances.