The Year I Was Peter the Great by Marvin Kalb

Author:Marvin Kalb
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

I had asked myself when I arrived in this historic city whether twentieth-century Samarkand could somehow match the allure of fifteenth-century Samarkand. My answer was no. The beauty of old Samarkand had an unmatchable allure, if it was fully restored, and the Russians were making a good-faith effort to do this. But the effort, in my judgment, would ultimately fail, because everything imposed by communism ended up being corrupted by the underlying injustice, arbitrariness, and cruelty of the system. Old Samarkand, even if restored, would probably look like an artificial tourist trap, a prop against the cheap reality of the new Samarkand.

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