Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Map; Prologue; 1. On the Devil's Horns; 2. A Russian Englishman; 3. My Arbat University; 4. Who Is Last?; 5. Oh! Bananas!; 6. Forty Degrees; 7. Here Comes the Sun; 8. To Red Lighthouse; 9. The Unpredictable Past; 10. Strange Encounters; 11. Cold War Walls; 12. Not Any Other Country; 13. Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!; 14. Goodbye to Moscow; 15. Back in the UK; 16. Lemonade Joe; 17. Into a Whirlwind; 18. More Light; 19. The KGB Makes Friends; 20. The KGB Closes in; 21. Baltic Rebirth; 22. Triumph and Tragedy; 23. The KGB Gets Me; 24. Spitting Live Frogs.;"A personal and revealing perspective of Russia by the acclaimed former BBC and Sunday Times Moscow correspondent, who worked in Russia for over 30 years and who witnessed first-hand the darkest days of communism and the rise of Putin. In the course of the past forty-five years, Angus Roxburgh has translated Tolstoy, met three successive Russian presidents and been jinxed by a Siberian shaman. He has come under fire in war zones and been arrested by Chechen thugs. He was wooed by the KGB, who then decided he would make a lousy spy and expelled him from the country. In Moscow Calling Roxburgh presents his Russia - not the Russia of news reports, but a quirky, crazy, exasperating, beautiful, tumultuous world that in forty years has changed completely, and yet not at all. From the dark, fearful days of communism and his adventures as a correspondent as the Soviet Union collapsed into chaos, to his frustrating work as a media consultant in Putin's Kremlin, this is a unique, fascinating and often hilarious insight into a country that today, more than ever, is of global political significance."--