WAKING

THE

TEMPESTS

ORDINARY LIFE IN THE NEW RUSSIA

ELEANOR RANDOLPH

洛杉磯時報資深記者愛蓮娜．藍道夫橫跨蘇聯，從莫斯科到海參崴，訪談來自各行各業的蘇俄民眾，檢視各個家庭、組機以及機構，在蘇聯解體後的動亂生活中，勉力求生的第一手紀實。初版兩萬冊。

After communism in the Soviet Union came chaos. Ordinary Russians, liberated from a controlled and communal society, woke up in 1992 to a life that seemed to have no rules. For some, the new disorder offered possibilities—a chance to get rich, to enjoy the excesses of life without a brutal government intervening. For others, it has been a time to worship or create freely, to publish what offends the state, or to leave the country altogether.

For many, however, freedom is like being abandoned without a map or a guidebook, like being lost in a jungle where brute force wins every argument. Taught during the Soviet years to obey, many Russians have ceded their opportunities to society's new keepers—like the mafiya or the new greedy capitalists or old communists who have converted themselves into new profiteers.

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.

■愛蓮娜．藍道夫／Eleanor Randolph

Eleanor Randolph is a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. She worked in Russia for The Washington Post from 1991 to 1993. She has written for numerous publications, including Vogue, Esquire, The New Republic, and The Washington Post Writers' Group, where she was a columnist writing about the media. She lives in New York City.

作者：愛蓮娜．藍道夫／Eleanor Randolph

版本：First Edition

規格：精裝／Hardback，16.6 x 24.3 x 3.3 cm，432頁

出版商：Simon & Schuster

出版日期：1996年06月19日

語言：英文

ISBN-10：0-684-80912-5

非新品書頁泛黃，四頁螢光筆劃記，其餘未曾使用，不介意物品狀況再行購買。

Condition: Good. Pre-owned book in good condition. Four pages of highlighting of text while the rest has never been read. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact as well. With dust jacket.

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