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This book is a travelogue of the author's five trips to Siberia between 1993 and 2009 combined with a description of the culture of Russia since the break-up of the Soviet Union. This book is by turn charming, laugh out loud funny, and heartbreaking. Frazier travels through Siberia with an eye to Russia's past. He writes with skill and eloquence about the gulags of the Stalin era, the Decembrist revolt, and the wide variety of political prisoners who have been exiled to the villages and towns in
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