Estonia on the Map

BACK ON THE MAP

Adventures in Newly Independent Estonia

by Marc Hyman

224 pages. Krimar Mustoli. $10.95.

The year is 1992. The smallest of the former Soviet republics has recently regained its freedom following a half-century of repressive occupation. Estonia is back on the map.

So what happens now?

This evocative memoir vividly captures the frantic yet optimistic spirit of an extraordinary moment in time, providing a detailed and moving account of daily life in a country undergoing dramatic change just a year after the collapse of the Soviet empire.

In these pages you’ll become immersed in this tumultuous period and come to know a remarkable succession of real people–Estonians and Russians, students and teachers, capitalists and Communists–as they struggle to rebuild their lives and make ends meet in a collapsing economy while working to reinvent their battered nation.

The author, recruited to teach at the first private business school to be established in the former Soviet Union, candidly recounts experiences that are by turns grim, hilarious, and poignant.

You can read the first chapter by going here, then clicking on the image of the cover of the book.

The book is available for purchase from amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, The Elliott Bay Book Company, Powell’s Books, and other fine booksellers.

Publication Date: Sep 29 2009 | ISBN/EAN13: 1449503144 / 9781449503147 | Page Count: 224 | Binding Type: US Trade Paper | Trim Size: 5.25″ x 8″ | Language: English | Color: Black and White |Categories: Travel / Memoir / Former Soviet Republics