A Russian journal / John Steinbeck ; with photographs by Robert Capa ; with an introduction by Susan Shillinglaw.

Author
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Penguin Books, 1999.
Description
xxviii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

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    Series
    Penguin twentieth-century classics [More in this series]
    Summary note
    ... "Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer Prize -- winning author John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travelers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad -- now Volgograd -- but through the countryside of the Ukraine and the Caucasus. Hailed by the New York Times as "superb" when it first appeared in 1948, A Russian Journal is the distillation of their journey and remains a remarkable memoir and unique historical document. What they saw and movingly recorded in words and on film was what Steinbeck called "the great other side there ... [the] private life of the Russian people". Unlike other Western reporting about Russia at the time, A Russian Journal is free of ideological obsessions. Rather, Steinbeck and Capa recorded the grim realities of, factory workers, government clerks, and peasants, as they emerged from the rubble of World War II ..."--Page 4 of cover.
    Notes
    Originally published: New York : Viking, 1948.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvii-xxviii).
    ISBN
    • 0141180196 ((paperback))
    • 9780141180199 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    99029499
    OCLC
    41400783
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