Imperium - Ryszard Kapuściński Pages: 356

Pages: 356

identity and time lost

commitment

Translator: Anna Kushner

But soon he finds that such mask is more than a disguise: it is an alternate self - a self that is capable of anything

Imperium - Ryszard Kapuściński Pages: 356Imperium is the story of an empire: the constellation of states that was submerged under a single identity for most of the twentieth century the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. From the arrival of Soviet troops into his hometown in Poland in 1939, to just before the Berlin Wall came down, as the USSR convulsed and died, Kapuscinski travelled thousands of miles and talked to hundreds of ordinary Soviet people about their extraordinary lives and