From Under The Russian Snow

A Memoir From Russiarsquo;s Bubble Of Freedom In The Pre-putin Era.michelle Carter At Age Fifty, Married And The Mother Of Two Children In Their Early Twenties, Left Her Job As Managing Editor Of A Suburban Daily Newspaper In The San Francisco Bay Area In 1995 To Move To Russia For A Year As A United States Information Agency Journalist-in-residence.there She Traveled Across The Eleven Time Zones Of This Complex Country, Working With Newspaper Editors Who Struggled To Adapt To The Concepts Of Press Freedom And A Market Economy. She Became An On-the-scene Witness To The Second Great Russian Revolution. She Viewed Russia From Her Flat On The Embankment Of The Moscow River And From Her Sometimes Humorous Shoulder-to-shoulder Participation In The Life Of The Largest Country In The The Same Time, She Embarked On A Personal Journey That Wrenched Her Life In A Way She Could Never Have Anticipated When She Accepted Her Husbandrsquo;s Challenge To Take This Assignment And Culminate Her Eight Years Of Work And Travel In The Former Soviet Union.