Naomi F. Collins Through Dark Days and White Nights: Four Decades Observing a Changing Russia

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The author provides a personal, eye-witness account from the mid 1960s through the turn of the 21st century, starting as a graduate student at Moscow State University and ending as the wife of the American Ambassador to Russia.This book is like a script for a documentary spanning four decades when an especially astute and literate observer watched Russia emerge from stagnation and enter a period of dramatic economic, social, and political change and, on many fronts, upheaval. Strobe Talbott, President of the Brookings Institution.Naomi Collins takes the reader on a fascinating ride through the last forty years of Russias turbulent history, beginning as a graduate student and ending as the wife of the American Ambassador. Because she writes so well, the ride is always fun, informative and insightful. Read, enjoy, learn! Marvin Kalb, Murrow Professor Emeritus, Harvard University.Naomi Collinss book conveys the atmosphere and feel of these changing times, describing settings and scenes, and the people in them, in a pointillist style. William Taubman, Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science, Amherst College