Books by Catherine Merridale

Catherine Merridale is the Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Bristol. She spent two years in Russia and the Ukraine researching Night of Stone, cahtting to people on trains, visiting people in their homes, recording interviews and bartering for information. The hazards of travel included hypothermia, harassment and over-whelming hospitatilty (including brain-destroying home-distilled spirits). Catherine recently returned to Russia, whre she spent time interviwing teachers and lecturers about the edudational difficulties in Russia, and how they are coping with a new generation of students who are questioning Russia's past and political ideology.