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Why Do We Travel? On Erika Fatland’s ‘Sovietistan’

Why Do We Travel? On Erika Fatland’s ‘Sovietistan’

Social anthropologist Erika Fatland eschews many of the clichés of Post-Soviet travel writing, providing an incident-packed trip to a vast, often-overlooked region in Sovietistan.

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