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Looking Through Glasnost
After 1991, when the communist hierarchy of 74 years collapsed throwing the Soviet Union into turmoil, the market economy failed to materialize and western money disappeared into the hands of the oligarchs. The expectations of the people were dashed, their personal savings erased by successive devaluations of the rouble.
Gil Parker's Looking Through Glasnost describes a dozen personal visits by the former engineer and mountain climber, prompted by a Rotary Club 'sister-city' initiative in 1988. Over a 15-year period, Parker explored Georgia, Lithuania, Uzbekistan, and Russia east to west, befriended many Soviet citizens, learned Russian and came to understand the crumbling Communist model and the faltering democracy that replaced it. 978-0-9736906-1-3
[BCBW 2008]
Gil Parker's Looking Through Glasnost describes a dozen personal visits by the former engineer and mountain climber, prompted by a Rotary Club 'sister-city' initiative in 1988. Over a 15-year period, Parker explored Georgia, Lithuania, Uzbekistan, and Russia east to west, befriended many Soviet citizens, learned Russian and came to understand the crumbling Communist model and the faltering democracy that replaced it. 978-0-9736906-1-3
[BCBW 2008]
Submitted on March 8, 2008 in By David.
