Russia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

Culture Smart / Cultuur Bewust

by Anna King, Anna Shevchenko

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships. Culture Smart! offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of a particular country. It will help you to turn your visit-whether on business or for pleasure-into a memorable and enriching experience. Contents include: * customs, values, and traditions * historical, religious, and political background * life at home * leisure, social, and cultural life * eating and drinking * do's, don'ts, and taboos * business practices * communication, spoken and unspoken

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction, Russia, Audiobook, History, Cultural

168 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Also publishes as Anna Shevchenko and A.K. Shevchenko.

Reviews

[Dave · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well done. The author covers every aspect of Russian life with what appeared to be objective assessments of the past and present. Although I thought it had a lot of interesting insights, it was interesting that almost all of the opinions of the country and its government that I have gained over the years from movies, books, and news were the same. I was surprised that I didn't come away with any new opinions.

[Johan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book provides an excellent insight into Russian culture and history. It is well-written and accessible, offering a wealth of informative facts that enhance understanding of the subject.

[Edwin Martin · Rating 2 out of 5]

my first book read on the Kindle software on my netbook. It was OK, and a pretty quick read, but lots of the stuff was about customs related more to business relations that what I as a tourist would need to know. I bought it on Kindle simply because there were no used books with price + shipping < cost on Kindle.

[Tao · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a nice little reference book. It taught me quite a lot that I did not know about Russian culture.

[Joshua Duffy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really liked this little book on Russia. It covers cultural aspects on almost everything and is a great lil gateway book to explore more of the fascination that is Russia.

[Blackbird · Rating 5 out of 5]

A lot of what the author discussed I recognised from my own experiences. The writing style is fun and fluent!

[Joshua Zuniga · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very good view into the culture of Russia and very informative