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Russia Explosive

Russia after the breakdown of the Soviet Union: Drunken red armists near St. Petersburg drive around with atomic missiles. The TV reporters succeed without problem in smuggling nuclear material out of a factory. In Rostov at the river Don a serial killer is on trial live on TV. A children’s mafia controls the streets of Moscow… In addition to bizarre scenes of Russian life at that time Adrian Geiges and Andre Zalbertus describe the political events – from two coup d’etats, which they covered from the centre of the fighting, to the bloody conflicts in the Caucasus.

Was on the Spiegel magazine bestseller list, the most renowned bestseller list in Germany.

„The book is interesting, because curious young journalists describe first hand a changing world. And it is thrilling, because excellent writing and a clear structure make the reading easy.“
West German General Newspaper

„It catapults me into the world of flowing borders between politics, war and crime.“
Book Market

Love Is Not on the State Plan

The first authentic investigation: Sexuality in the Soviet Union. In frank talks with young women and men the authors show the effects of the changing society on the people and their personal relations. Love, sex and perestroika – an insight into the everyday life in the Soviet Union.

„This book is about the still existing unequality of man and women, about sexist behaviour of Soviet men and the intolerance against everything which differs from the norm. But Adrian Geiges and Tatyana Suvorova also write about the resistance especially of women against these old norms. Their report is the first investigation of the sexual state of the Soviet society after decades of moral stagnation.“
Günter Amendt in his epilogue to the book

„The beds are governed by frustration. A Moscow female journalist and her West German male colleague wanted to know whether the perestroika has changed the sex life of the Soviet people. Result: The old prudery continues.“
Katja Gloger, Stern

„The book not only names the puritanic, legal and official taboos, but also asks what stands behind them… Adrian Geiges and Tatyana Suvorava succeeded in the nearly impossible, because each time when they visited a factory, a school, an institute or a ministry, they first had to break a hole into the wall of the ‚responsible comrades‘ through signatures, stamps and telephone approval. But after they succeeded getting past the bureaucrats, they met open people. The young women and men replied willingly and sincerely.“
Vladimir Pylyov, Moscow News

Revolution Without Shooting

Everybody talked about perestroika during that time – but what was it like on location? In a richly nuanced report Adrian Geiges tells of his experiences with the young people of the industrialized city of Rostov. He worked with them on an assembly line for harvester combines and studied with them in their middle school classes. He accompanied them to the youth club, the rock concert hall and the soccer stadium. He talked with them about love and sex, about punk rock and heavy metal, about old habits and new thinking.

„If somebody would ask me how best to inform himself about perestroika in books, I would recommend him two: The 1987 published book of the greatest statesman of our time, Mikhail Gorbachev, which draws the big lines about this topic, and the one just now published by Adrian Geiges, which describes the everyday life of perestroika in the year 1987.“
Juergen Kuczynski, Professor for Economic Sciences, author of the East German bestseller „Dialogue With My Great-Grandson“

Awakening China

In 1986, Adrian Geiges visited the People’s Republic of China as the first representative of the Moscow-oriented West German Communists after decades of ideological fighting between the parties of both countries. He takes the reader with him on a fascinating journey full of contradictions into the China of that time.

In the Sueddeutsche Zeitung Willi Winkler calls it

„a book that is at times hilariously funny, at times irreconcilably sad“. He writes: „Geiges has risked a lot with his book.“

Please find the complete article under
http://jetzt.sueddeutsche.de/texte/anzeigen/393045

Managing Editor of The Autostadt Magazine

After many years as a foreign correspondent in China, Russia, the United States and Brazil, Adrian Geiges is using his international experience in his capacity as the Managing Editor of the (English-language) Autostadt Magazine International Edition. It is targeted at readers worldwide interested in mobility and culture.