{"product_id":"good-russian-in-search-of-a-nations-soul-1","title":"The Good Russian","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An important and necessary book... a work of honesty and humanity,\" Mishal Husain\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This is a unique and necessary book\" Simon Kuper, FT journalist and author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eChums\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A powerful and deeply personal exploration of what it means to be Russian today\" Sarah Rainsford, author of Goodbye to Russia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A fine and brave book.\" Luke Harding, author of \u003ci\u003eInvasion: Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the writer Jana Bakunina, who has lived in the UK for 20 years, felt furious, ashamed, but most of all helpless. A year later she travelled to her home city of Yekaterinburg to see how ordinary Russians viewed the conflict - and whether the soul of her nation had truly been crushed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJana finds a booming city seemingly untouched by war. Reconnecting with old friends, she discovers people either happy to go along with a regime that has brought them stability, or else staying out of politics. Most painful of all, her once liberal father has channelled his personal disappointments into becoming a firm fan of Putin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the grand humane tradition of Russian dissident writers, Jana Bakunina grapples with a universal problem: what happens when a country you love becomes infected by nationalism? What hope is there when voices of conscience are silenced by dictatorship? And can Russians in exile still imagine a liberated future?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Good Russian : In Search of a Nation's Soul","offer_id":50937767854277,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-0-349-13661-5.jpg?v=1794356241","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/good-russian-in-search-of-a-nations-soul-1","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}