Andrea Lee
At age twenty-five, Andrea Lee joined her husband, a Harvard doctoral candidate in Russian history, for his eight monthsâ€™ 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 authorâ€™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 Lettersâ€“and the book that launched Leeâ€™s career as a writerâ€“Russian Journal is a beautiful and clear-eyed travel-writing classic.
Travel,Cultural,Russia,Autobiography,Memoir,Nonfiction,Cultural,African American,Russian History,Soviet Union
Russian Journal