The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past by Shaun Walker tarkovsky Karolina Pavlova's A Double Life

Karolina Pavlova's A Double Life alternates prose and poetry to offer a wry picture of Russian aristocratic society and vivid dreams of escaping its strictures

fierce social commentary and razor-sharp wit

leaving Potemkin free to love his beautiful nieces

whatever distant authorities say

love and the joys of eating well on the road

The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past by Shaun Walker tarkovsky Karolina Pavlova's A Double LifeIn The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker provides a deeply reported, bottom up explanation of Russia's resurgence under Putin. By cleverly exploiting the memory of the Soviet victory over fascism in World War II, Putin's regime has made ordinary Russians feel that their country is great again. Shaun Walker provides new insight into contemporary Russia and its search for a new identity, telling the story through the country's troubled relationship with its