In Moscow 1992, according to former ABC journalist in Soviet Russia Monica Attard, ‘the cost of everything – a loaf of bread, a piece of sausage, a kilo of sugar – had risen 500 per cent’.
The authorities had promised price rises closer to 20 per cent, according to Attard. Her weighty, courageous history of those dismal times within Russia: which way paradise? documents the insanity of the Soviet system in turmoil.
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