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Glorious People

Sasha Salzmann

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'A fascinating account of the collapse of the Soviet Union' MARIE CLAIRE

'Masterful and haunting' ELENA GOROKHOVA

For Lena, childhood summers meant training to be a good socialist at Pioneer camp, singing songs in praise of Lenin. But when perestroika shatters her world, all must be unlearned. Lena's corner of the USSR is suddenly Ukraine: there is a McDonalds in Moscow's Red Square and certified foreign whisky, but no food in the shops.

For her friend Tatyana, survival in her changing homeland requires new skills: bullet dodging, business sense and a knack for bribery and corruption. When both women head West in search of new beginnings, their homesickness for a vanished land is inherited by their rebellious daughters, caught between forging their own identities and untangling the rich histories of the mothers who raised them.

Translated by Imogen Taylor
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 13 Feb 2025
Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 28 mm
ISBN: 9781782279501