{"product_id":"glorious-people-1","title":"Glorious People","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A fascinating account of the collapse of the Soviet Union' \u003ci\u003eMARIE CLAIRE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Masterful and haunting' ELENA GOROKHOVA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Lena, childhood summers meant training to be a good socialist at Pioneer camp, singing songs in praise of Lenin. But when perestroika shatters her world, all must be unlearned. Lena's corner of the USSR is suddenly Ukraine: there is a McDonalds in Moscow's Red Square and certified foreign whisky, but no food in the shops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor her friend Tatyana, survival in her changing homeland requires new skills: bullet dodging, business sense and a knack for bribery and corruption. When both women head West in search of new beginnings, their homesickness for a vanished land is inherited by their rebellious daughters, caught between forging their own identities and untangling the rich histories of the mothers who raised them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pushkin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53744774873432,"sku":"9781782279501","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781782279501.jpg?v=1778732158","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/glorious-people-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}