In Putin's Footsteps

In Putin's Footsteps is Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler's unique combination of travelogue, current affairs, and history, showing how Russia's dimensions have shaped its identity and culture through the decades.

With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev's great grand-daughter, and an ex-pat living and reporting on Russia and the Soviet Union since 1993, Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler offer a poignant exploration of the largest country on earth through their recreation of Vladimir Putin's fabled New Year's Eve speech planned across all eleven time zones.

After taking over from Yeltsin in 1999, and then being elected president in a landslide, Putin traveled to almost two dozen countries and a quarter of Russia's eighty-nine regions to connect with ordinary Russians. His travels inspired the idea of a rousing New Year's Eve address delivered every hour at midnight throughout Russia's eleven time zones. The idea was beautiful, but quickly abandoned as an impossible feat. He correctly intuited, however, that the success of his presidency would rest on how the country's outback citizens viewed their place on the world stage.

Today more than ever, Putin is even more determined to present Russia as a formidable nation. We need to understand why Russia has for centuries been an adversary of the West. Its size, nuclear arsenal, arms industry, and scientific community (including cyber-experts), guarantees its influence.

In urmele lui Putin se afla combinatia unica a istoriei de calatorie, a actualitatii si a istoriei lui Nina Hrusciov si a lui Jeffrey Tayler, care arata cum dimensiunile Rusiei si-au modelat identitatea si cultura de-a lungul deceniilor. Cu statut de privilegiat exclusiv ca stranepoata lui Nikita Hrusciov si fost traind si raportand despre Rusia si Uniunea Sovietica incepand cu 1993, Nina Hrusciov si Jeffrey Tayler ofera o explorare intensa a celei mai mari tari de pe pamant prin recreerea lor in discursul fabulos de Revelion al lui Vladimir Putin, planificat in toate cele unsprezece fusuri orare. Yeltsin in 1999, apoi fiind ales presedinte intr-o alunecare de teren, Putin a calatorit in aproape doua duzini de tari si un sfert din cele optzeci si noua de regiuni ale Rusiei pentru a se conecta cu rusii obisnuiti.