Tag: Soviet Union
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Sovietistan
Erika Fatland’s Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan provides a personal account of travels into the former and little-known Soviet republics of Central Asia in the 2010s. The author includes vital context on the specific cultures within each republic and attempts to dispel common perceptions of Read more
Evan Schwed
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Eastern Approaches – Maclean’s Memoirs
Fitzroy Maclean‘s three part adventure series, Eastern Approaches describes his experiences journeying through pre-WWII Soviet Asia, fighting in North Africa during the early stages of WWII and supporting the Yugoslav Partisans to relieve the German occupation later in WWII. Each of these sections detail his extraordinary expeditions. These expeditions often Read more