Wendell Steavenson is a journalist who spent two years in post-Soviet Georgia, in the town of Tbilisi. Here she recounts her experiences, which range from a visit to the Gorbachevs' country home to a talk with a man constructing a Josef Stalin theme park.

Traces the author's two-year stint in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, where she witnessed the artifacts of the Soviet era, the rigged elections of president Shevardnadze, and the clashes of the area's despots, mountain tribes, and blood feuds. Reprint.

Traces the author's two-year stint in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, where she witnessed the artifacts of the Soviet era, the rigged elections of president Shevardnadze, and the clashes of the area's despots, mountain tribes, and blood feuds. Reprint.