bSteinbeck and Capa's account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing. pA Penguin Classic pbJust after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the iNew York Herald Tribunei. This rare opportunity took the famous travelers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad - now Volgograd - but through the countryside of the Ukraine and the Caucasus. Hailed by the New York Times as superb when it first appeared in 1948, bA Russian Journalb is the distillation of their journey and remains a remarkable memoir and unique historical document.pWhat they saw and movingly recorded in words and on film was what Steinbeck called the great other side there ... the private life of the Russian people. Unlike other Western reporting about Russia at the time, bA Russian Journalb is free of ideological obsessions. Rather, Steinbeck and