Red Odyssey is a travel book written by Marat Akchurin for those who have a passion for reading good adventure and history books. Through a kaleidoscope of individual perspectives the author explores and describes a collective historical experience of the multi-ethnic and multi-confessional nation living in the crumbling totalitarian state. Red Odyssey is not a political treatise or sociology theses or a history dissertation. It is rather a book of adventures of a time-traveler who tries to survive in a surrealistic society that is permeated with hypocrisy and lies. The ruling regime is captive to its own lies, so it falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. Imperial propaganda is transforming reality into fiction. The goal of Red Odyssey is to reverse the fabricated verisimilitude of their false utopia into the harsh truth of reality. Akchurin's keen, perceptive eye, his taste for adventure, and his intimate knowledge of this fractured superpower - its history, cultures, legends, folklores, politics, and ethnicities - leave no stone unturned in his relentless exploration of a nation never before seen so close from inside by Western eyes.