{"product_id":"from-under-the-russian-snow-hardcover","title":"From Under the Russian Snow - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA memoir from Russia's bubble of freedom in the pre-Putin era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichelle Carter at age fifty, married and the mother of two children in their early twenties, left her job as managing editor of a suburban daily newspaper in the San Francisco Bay area in 1995 to move to Russia for a year as a United States Information Agency Journalist-in-Residence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere she traveled across the eleven time zones of this complex country, working with newspaper editors who struggled to adapt to the new concepts of press freedom and a market economy. She became an on-the-scene witness to the second great Russian revolution. She viewed Russia from her flat on the embankment of the Moscow River and from her sometimes humorous shoulder-to-shoulder participation in the life of the largest country in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the same time, she embarked on a personal journey that wrenched her life in a way she could never have anticipated when she accepted her husband's challenge to take this assignment and culminate her eight years of work and travel in the former Soviet Union.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67948233326815,"sku":"9781945805752","price":40.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/oQDuV4mpxx9781945805752.webp?v=1791550374","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/from-under-the-russian-snow-hardcover","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}