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A Russian Journal
By John Steinbeck and Robert Capa (photographer)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Penguin Classics
Publication date December 1, 1999
Pages 212
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780141180199
ISBN-10 0141180196
Dimensions 0.50 by 5.50 by 8 in.
Weight 0.35 lbs.
Original list price $15.00
Other format details travel
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Steinbeck and Capa’s account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing.

A Penguin Classic

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appeared in 1948, A Russian Journal is the distillation of their journey and remains a remarkable memoir and unique historical document.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—represented 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.

 

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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from Penguin Classics (December 1, 1999)
9780141180199 | details & prices | 212 pages | 5.50 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $15.00
About: Steinbeck and Capa’s account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing.
Reprint edition from Paragon House (October 1, 1989)
9781557782250 | details & prices | List price $10.95
About: Describes the experiences of the author and photographer when, after the war, they traveled through the countryside visiting villages, factories, and farms

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