A Russian Journal Paperback - 1999
by John Steinbeck; Robert Capa (Photographer); Introduction by Susan Shillinglaw
Summary
Steinbeck and Capa’s account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing.
Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travelers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad now Volgograd but through the countryside of the Ukraine and the Caucasus. Hailed by the New York Times as "superb" when it first appeared in 1948, A Russian Journal is the distillation of their journey and remains a remarkable memoir and unique historical document.
What they saw and movingly recorded in words and on film was what Steinbeck called "the great other side there the private life of the Russian people." Unlike other Western reporting about Russia at the time, A Russian Journal is free of ideological obsessions. Rather, Steinbeck and Capa recorded the grim realities of factory workers, government clerks, and peasants, as they emerged from the rubble of World War IIrepresented here in Capa’s stirring photographs alongside Steinbeck’s masterful prose. Through it all, we are given intimate glimpses of two artists at the height of their powers, answering their need to document human struggle. This edition features an introduction by Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw.
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Steinbeck and Capa's account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing
Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer Prize -- winning author John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travelers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad -- now Volgograd -- but through the countryside of the Ukraine and the Caucasus. Hailed by the New York Times as "superb" when it first appeared in 1948, A Russian Journal is the distillation of their journey and remains a remarkable memoir and unique historical document.
What they saw and movingly recorded in words and on film was what Steinbeck called "the great other side there ... [the] private life of the Russian people". Unlike other Western reporting about Russia at the time, A Russian Journal is free of ideological obsessions. Rather, Steinbeck and Capa recorded the grim realities of factory workers, government clerks, and peasants, as they emerged from the rubble of World War II. Through it all, we are given intimate glimpses of two artists at the height of their powers, answering their need to document human struggle.Details
- Title A Russian Journal
- Author John Steinbeck; Robert Capa (Photographer); Introduction by Susan Shillinglaw
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-12-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780141180199 / 0141180196
- Weight 0.37 lbs (0.17 kg)
- Dimensions 7.76 x 5.14 x 0.45 in (19.71 x 13.06 x 1.14 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
- Cultural Region: Russian
- Library of Congress subjects Soviet Union - Description and travel, Steinbeck, John - Travel - Soviet Union
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99029499
- Dewey Decimal Code 914.704
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Citations
- Library Journal, 02/01/2000, Page 122
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