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Black Earth: a Journey through Russia after the Fall.

Publication: The Wilson Quarterly
Publication Date: 01-JAN-04 		Format: Online - approximately 645 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Black Earth: a Journey through Russia after the Fall.(Book Review)

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By Andrew Meier. Norton. 511 pp. $28.95

"Can a country survive without a conscience?" asks the father of a Russian conscript killed in Chechnya after corrupt Russian commanders let Chechen rebels pass through their lines. That question drives journalist Andrew Meier's dark travelogue through post-Soviet Russia. Like some latter-day Diogenes transplanted to the steppes, Meier journeys through Russia and finds little cause for hope. "In Moscow I was afraid every day," he writes. St. Petersburg was awash in crime, drug addiction, and HIV/AIDS. Vladivostok was "the corrupt heart of the far eastern frontier." Norilsk was...

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