The Long Song of Tchaikovsky Street: A Russian Adventure by Pieter Waterdrinker poetry The Cold War covers the

The Cold War covers the full geographical and historical reach of the conflict

A wonderful book from start to finish

money was resurrected as an essential tool of Soviet governance

the book includes semiautobiographical writings and prose poems that vividly evoke Eroshenko’s life and world

The Long Song of Tchaikovsky Street: A Russian Adventure by Pieter Waterdrinker poetry The Cold War covers theHistory doesnt repeat itself, it rhymes. One day in 1988, an enigmatic priest knocks on Pieter Waterdrinkers door with an unusual request: will he smuggle seven thousand bibles into the Soviet Union? Pieter agrees, and soon finds himself living in the midst of one of the biggest social and cultural revolutions of our time, working as a tour operator with a sideline in contraband. Thirty years later, from his apartment on Tchaikovsky Street in St