Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia
by Joshua Yaffa
Orwell Prize for Political Writing · 2021 · Winner
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Orwell Prize for Political Writing | 2021 | Winner |
About This Book
Through intimate portraits of a diverse cast of Russians—a doctor, a filmmaker, a conservationist, a television executive, an activist—New Yorker correspondent Joshua Yaffa explores the moral compromises required to operate within Putin's Russia. A profound meditation on complicity, survival, and the human capacity for self-justification under authoritarian governance.
About the Author
Joshua YaffaAmerican
Joshua Yaffa is an American journalist and a staff writer at The New Yorker based in Moscow. He has reported from Russia and Eastern Europe for more than a decade and is considered one of the foremost American journalists covering the former Soviet Union. He studied at Stanford University and the London School of Economics. Read more →
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