This is a thoughtful article by an American who chooses to live in Siberia. In America, he would be one of those adopting an alternative lifestyle, whom the mainstream calls DFHs, or if they have a pedigree like he does, eccentrics.
Fort Russ
Dusha: The Russian Soul and the Collapse of the West
Sandy Krolick
Born and raised in New York State, Sandy Krolick holds a doctorate in religious studies from University of Virginia, an masters degree from the University of Chicago, and a bachelor’s degree from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in NY.
After a ten-year academic career, with appointments at the University of Virginia, the University of Denver – Daniels College of Business, and the Colorado School of Mines, he spent the next twenty years in the executive ranks at several of Americaʼs largest international companies. Having traveled extensively throughout Europe and North America, as well as parts of Eurasia and Africa, Sandy now lives in Western Siberia with his wife and young child for the past nine years.
He has taught on cultural criticism and business at Altai State University, the Altai Institute for Law and Economics, and the Linguistic Institute of Altai State Pedagogical University in Barnaul, where he is currently chief specialist for International Cooperation. His publications include the internationally selling novel, Veronika: The Siberianʼs Tale (Islands Press) 2011, The Recovery of Ecstasy: Notebooks from Siberia (Islands Press) 2009, and Gandhi in the Postmodern Age: Issues in War and Peace (CSM Press) 1984.
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