{"product_id":"from-under-the-russian-snow-9781945805448","title":"From Under the Russian Snow","description":"\u003cp\u003eA memoir from Russia's bubble of freedom in the pre-Putin era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichelle Carter at age fifty, married and the mother of two children in their early twenties, left her job as managing editor of a suburban daily newspaper in the San Francisco Bay area in 1995 to move to Russia for a year as a United States Information Agency Journalist-in-Residence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere she traveled across the eleven time zones of this complex country, working with newspaper editors who struggled to adapt to the new concepts of press freedom and a market economy. She became an on-the-scene witness to the second great Russian revolution. She viewed Russia from her flat on the embankment of the Moscow River and from her sometimes humorous shoulder-to-shoulder participation in the life of the largest country in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the same time, she embarked on a personal journey that wrenched her life in a way she could never have anticipated when she accepted her husband's challenge to take this assignment and culminate her eight years of work and travel in the former Soviet Union.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichelle A Carter\u003c\/b\u003e is a professional journalist with a 30-year career in daily newspapering and a 12-year stint as a journalism instructor at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California. \u003ci\u003eFrom Under the Russian Snow\u003c\/i\u003e is the second book to grow out of her experiences in the former Soviet Union. The first, \u003ci\u003eChildren of Chernobyl\u003c\/i\u003e, was co-written with Michael J. Christensen.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bedazzled Ink Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50681738854674,"sku":"9781945805448","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_94776764-80ad-491b-8844-0c0b15a2d65f.jpg?v=1733957372","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/from-under-the-russian-snow-9781945805448","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}