Sara Wheeler

Whatever happened to glasnost and perestroika?

Thirty years on, Rory MacLean retraces his steps through Russia, Transnistria, Hungary and Poland, and finds more poverty and dispossession than ever

  • Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europe

    Rory MacLean

    Bloomsbury, pp. 356, £20

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