Putin country : a journey into the real Russia
(Book)

"A revealing look into the lives of ordinary Russians. More than twenty years ago, the longtime NPR correspondent Anne Garrels began to visit the region of Chelyabinsk, an aging military-industrial center a thousand miles east of Moscow that is home to the Russian nuclear program. Her goal was to chart the social and political aftershocks of the USSR's collapse. Garrels crafts a necessary portrait of the nation's heartland and explains why Vladimir Putin commands the loyalty of so many Russians, even those who decry the abuses of power they encounter from day to day."-- Publisher.