All the Clean Ones Are Married And Other Everyday Calamities

by Cidylo, Lori

• ISBN13: 9780897335010
• ISBN10: 0897335015
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers

Summary

In 1991, Lori Cidylo shocked her parents when she left her reporter's job on an upstate New York newspaper to live and work in the rapidly dissolving Soviet Union. For six years she lived on a shoe-string budget in Moscow, in tiny, run-down apartments, struggling with broken toilets and indifferent landlords and coping with the daily calamities of life in Russia. With the sharp eye of an acute observer, she captures the momentous events no less than the everyday trivia: how do Russians address one another now that the familiar "comrade" is passe; or how do you find your way home in a city where the streets keep getting new names? As Russia even now continues to struggle with the Cold War's aftermath, Cidylo gives a delightful, surprising, warmly human view of post-Soviet life.

Author Biography

Lori Cidylo is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in Newsday the Los Angeles Times, Boston Herald Chicago Tribune, The Economist, and other publications

Table of Contents

Introduction: So What Do You Think of This Crazy Country?	p. 9
This Way to the Russian Federation	p. 39
Everyday Calamities in Moscow	p. 65
A Little Help from My "Russian Mother"	p. 85
Sorry, No Wrinkled Dollar Bills, Please	p. 107
The Washing Machine that Needed Time to Rest	p. 127
All the Clean Ones Are Married	p. 145
Life is Cheap in Our Country	p. 165
He's More of a Feminist that Most Women I Know	p. 181
The Train Has Already Left the Station	p. 203
A Coup to Remember	p. 221
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