Russians: The People behind the Power
The new book by former National Public Radio (NPR) Moscow correspondent Gregory Feifer Russians: The People behind the Power is scheduled to be released on February 18, 2014.
In his book, Feifer explains the seeming paradoxes of Russian life by unraveling the nature of its people, their history, desires, and conceptions of themselves that makes them baffling to the West.
The book is based on Feifer’s eight-year journalistic experience in Moscow, where he worked as a reporter for NPR. Moreover, Mr. Feifer has Russian origins (his mother is Russian, and his father is an American journalist who wrote about the Soviet Union), which helped him understand Russian culture and traditions, and see the country close up.
In his interview with Russia Direct, Feifer admits that his new book is an attempt ‘to demystify Russia for general readers in the West, many of whom find Russian behavior and politics baffling.’