Farewell to Russia Joe Luc Barnes in conversation

We are very excited to be welcoming Joe Luc Barnes to Stow on 5th May, to celebrate his book, “Farewell to Russia“.

Snow, concrete, the KGB: that’s the cliché of the Soviet Union. But its collapse in 1991 sparked a story at once messier and more compelling than any stereotype. Thirty-five years on, Moscow may brim with champagne bars and blacked-out Mercedes – but what became of the other fourteen states that emerged from the ashes?

In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Joe Luc Barnes crossed the former USSR to find out, from the gleaming towers of Azerbaijan to the former gulags of Kazakhstan…

By turns hilarious, angry and heart-stopping, this is a darkly comic, deeply human portrait of a region the West still misunderstands.

Free event. Tickets through Eventbrite – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/…/farewell-to-russia-joe…