Waking the tempests
Subtitle: ordinary life in the new Russia
By: Eleanor Randolph
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
Subjects: Social life and customs; Civilization; Description and travel; Post-communism; Social conditions; Travel
Description: Waking the Tempests is about how ordinary Russians are struggling to survive the revolution from Communism to Capitalism in the 1990s. Reporter Eleanor Randolph takes us to Soviet hospitals and new Russian 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 stands with old women peddling plastic toys in the markets and interviews the head of the Bolshoi ballet school. From Moscow to the East, from the Arctic Circle to the southern farmlands, she talks with young men and old women, doctors and conjurers, real estate brokers and newly converted businesswomen - all trying to cope in a world where the rules changed virtually overnight.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-410) and index.