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Part 1: Chapters 1-4
· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Gessen, Keith. A Terrible Country. Viking, 2018. Hardcover.
· In Part 1, Chapter 1, during the late summer of 2008, Andrei Kaplan moves to Moscow to take care of his grandmother.
· He has not seen her for nearly a decade.
· Andrei and his brother, Dima, are her only family.
· Her only daughter, their mother, died years earlier.
· In 1981, Andrei, his parents, and his brother left the Soviet Union.
· Andrei was six and Dima was 16.
· Andrei became an American, and Dima remained essentially Russian.
· Dima returned to Moscow after the Soviet Union collapsed.
· One day he asked Andrei to stay with Baba Seva while he went to London.
· Andrei has spent four years in college and eight in grad school studying Russian literature and history.
· He has spent three years looking for a job with no results.
· When...
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