The Long Song of Tchaikovsky Street: A Russian Adventure by Pieter Waterdrinker war in Ukraine Tim Judah brings a rare

Tim Judah brings a rare glimpse of the reality behind the headlines

this masterpiece offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human consequences of the war – and an extraordinary chronicle of the Russian soul

and is indispensable reading for anyone seeking to make sense of international politics today

Serhii Plokhy traces the history of Ukraine from the arrival of the Vikings in the tenth century to the current Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine and annexation of Crimea

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The Long Song of Tchaikovsky Street: A Russian Adventure by Pieter Waterdrinker war in Ukraine Tim Judah brings a rareHistory doesnt repeat itself, it rhymes. One day in 1988, an enigmatic priest knocks on Pieter Waterdrinkers door with an unusual request: will he smuggle seven thousand bibles into the Soviet Union? Pieter agrees, and soon finds himself living in the midst of one of the biggest social and cultural revolutions of our time, working as a tour operator with a sideline in contraband. Thirty years later, from his apartment on Tchaikovsky Street in St