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Title: Funny, accurate, informative
Review: Thought this was even better than his other work on Russia, "Red Moon Rising". And "Red Moon Rising" was pretty great.Brzezinski is witty, humerous, and completely honest about his years in Russia--detailing the good, the bad, and the ugly as the country transitioned from a Communist system where everyone stole everything to a Capitalist system where everyone stole everything.He also paints a pretty accurate picture of being a foreigner visiting Russia. As an American who has been to both Moscow and Siberia, I can vouch for the voraciously unscrupulous taxi drivers hawking 200$ rides from one airport to another, and other things Brzezinski so accurately depicts. However, his experience was much more interesting and treacherous than mine, him visiting Anatoly Chubais, meeting with many of the richest oligarchs, and seeing the remains of Chernobyl.This is a great book to start with learning about post-Communist Russia.
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