Midnight in Siberia – Audiobook Online

Midnight in Siberia is a history book by author David Greene.
Set in Siberia’s winter landscape, Greene’s vivid travel story offers a glimpse into the soul of 20th-century Russia: how its people remember their history and look forward to it. future.
After two and a half years as head of the NPR office in Moscow, David Greene traveled the country – a 6,000-mile journey by rail, from Moscow to the Pacific port of Vladivostok – talking to ordinary Russians about How their lives changed in the post-Soviet years. Prominent protests in Moscow, Green spoke to a group of babushkas singing from Buranovo, a teenager peddling “space rocks” from last spring’s meteor shower in Chelyabinsk, and activists fighting for Environmental regulations in the polluted town of Baikalsk. A Tale of Companions, Greene explores the challenges and opportunities facing the new Russia: a nation that prides itself on public elections and nascent prosperity but continues to suffer oppression, corruption and severe inequality.

David Greene shares his travel from Moscow to the Pacific Coast of Russia through nine time zones. He captures the accepting nature of the people he meets as they face all sorts of challenges and at the same time they express optimism for a future “stabilization”.

David Greene’s tour of Russia’s outlying points and careful steering around an unwanted border crossing, all by train, is rich in its reflection of the vast geographic span through nine time zones that ends on the Russian Pacific Coast and portrays of a society that appears able to survive–no matter what.

He shows that the peoples who make up today’s Russia have a challenge of reflecting that which has befallen them over the past few centuries, from czars to dictators to faux democracy, yet they remain warm and welcoming to outsiders who try to get to know them on a face to face people to people basis. It is not easy to portray the contradictions that David reports on, nor predict how the current social confusion will play out for the Russian Republic.

Anyone interested in grasping the situation from a Russian perspective can benefit from this entertaining read. We will all need to stay tuned to see how this diverse culture finds itself in the 21st Century.

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