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C.S Walton was born in London in 1956. She was educated at St. Paul's Girls' School and the London School of Economics. Her occupations have included pavement-painting in Berlin, house-painting in California, selling ice cream in Canada and teaching English in Brazil. She has traveled extensively in Europe, Asia and the Americas. After a visit to the USSR in 1979 she learned Russian, which helped her to establish herself in a communal flat in Samara in 1993. She was curious to find out what life had really been like behind the iron curtain
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Little Tenement on the Volga
by C.S. Walton
isbn: 1891053787
Design by Alice Gail-Carter
147 pages
Softcover
Russia/History/Nonfiction.
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Little Tenement on the Volga presents a spellbinding first-person view of tenement life in post-Soviet Russia by the subtle and brilliant C.S. Walton, author of Ivan Petrov: Russia through a Shot Glass.
"This engaging and amusing account by an English woman of life in post-Soviet Russia shows how little has changed for this nation in transition."
--Booklist
"Walton captures much that's vivid about the hardships, ironies, and small victories of ... contemporary Russia."
--Kirkus Reviews
"This interesting book gives you a rare look at the way it still is -- and why Russian 'Capitalism' is now leading directly to a new and dangerous nationalism."
--Georgie Anne Geyer, Syndicated Columnist and author of Guerrilla Prince, The Untold Story of Fidel Castro
"By the middle of the book, an uneasy intimacy with these complicated, resourceful, not-entirely-likable characters and a fixation to understand their society kept me turning pages."
--Chicklit
"Her narrative is both humorous and tragic; it opens for the reader an untinted window to this mysterious, absurd, and fascinating reality."
--Alexander Babyonyshev, Harvard University
"For anyone interested in the dark side of post-Cold War Russia, Little Tenement is indeed an eye-opener."
--Bill Mithoefer of Bad Subjects
Garrett County Press is the distinguished, award-winning publisher of Common Folk Illustrated Journal, Best of Temp Slave, For Here or To Go, Living Lost, Ivan Petrov, From Campus to Combat, Guinea Pig Zero, Little Tenement on the Volga, Even A Daughter Is Better Than Nothing, A Terrible Thunder: The Story of the New Orleans Sniper, Welcome to the Bethlehem Star Hotel, Voice of Leningrad and What the Hell Am I Doing Here?
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