‘There is often an immediacy about the situations of which Patricia writes… one reads on eager to learn of the next stages.’ Photo: Book cover of Sketches From a Quaker’s Moscow Journal, by Patricia Cockrell
Sketches From a Quaker’s Moscow Journal, by Patricia Cockrell
Author: Patricia Cockrell. Review by Chris Lawson
by Chris Lawson
4th February 2022
n stark contrast to how it seems today, in the 1990s civil society in Russia was opening up. This meant it became possible to set up Friends House Moscow, with support from British and American Friends. It drew together those in Russia interested in Quakers, supported advice work for conscientious objectors, and launched Alternatives to Violence programmes and other innovative projects.
