Hustling On Gorky Street: Sex And Crime In Russia Today
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Beneath the carefully constructed façade of Soviet respectability, a hidden world of vice, corruption, and survival thrives — and Hustling on Gorky Street tears that façade wide open. Yuri Brokhin, a former Soviet journalist who lived and breathed the underground culture of Moscow's most famous boulevard, presents a vivid and unflinching account of the black markets, prostitution rings, and criminal networks that flourished in the shadows of the USSR, painting a portrait of a society whose official ideology was in constant, secret war with its own human nature. Brokhin's account is at once a work of social anthropology and a riveting piece of narrative non-fiction, written with the authority of an insider and the sharp eye of a trained journalist. Translated into English in collaboration with E.B. Kane, the book brings an authenticity rarely found in Western analyses of Soviet life, illuminating the moral contradictions of a state that preached collectivist virtue while its citizens hustled for survival on every street corner. For anyone who thought they understood the Soviet Union, Hustling on Gorky Street presents a truth far stranger — and far darker — than the official version.
Author: Yuri Brokhin
Format: Hardback
Published: 1975, The Dial Press
Genre: True crime
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Beneath the carefully constructed façade of Soviet respectability, a hidden world of vice, corruption, and survival thrives — and Hustling on Gorky Street tears that façade wide open. Yuri Brokhin, a former Soviet journalist who lived and breathed the underground culture of Moscow's most famous boulevard, presents a vivid and unflinching account of the black markets, prostitution rings, and criminal networks that flourished in the shadows of the USSR, painting a portrait of a society whose official ideology was in constant, secret war with its own human nature. Brokhin's account is at once a work of social anthropology and a riveting piece of narrative non-fiction, written with the authority of an insider and the sharp eye of a trained journalist. Translated into English in collaboration with E.B. Kane, the book brings an authenticity rarely found in Western analyses of Soviet life, illuminating the moral contradictions of a state that preached collectivist virtue while its citizens hustled for survival on every street corner. For anyone who thought they understood the Soviet Union, Hustling on Gorky Street presents a truth far stranger — and far darker — than the official version.