Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
State building in Putin's Russia State building in Putin's Russia Brian D. Taylor "Building a strong Russian state was the central goal of Vladimir Putin's presidency. This book argues that Putin's strategy for rebuilding the state was fundamentally flawed. Taylor demonstrates tha… OL15538554W
Время сэконд хэнд Время сэконд хэнд Светлана Алексиевич "From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the … OL16813790W
Political elites and the new Russia Political elites and the new Russia Anton Steen Political Elite and the New Russia convincingly argues that although reforms in Russia have been initiated by those close to the President, in fact local and national elites have been the crucial str… OL2758213W
Mythmaking in the new Russia Mythmaking in the new Russia Kathleen E. Smith "Kathleen E. Smith examines the use of collective memories in Russian politics during the Yeltsin years, surveying the various issues that became battlegrounds for contending notions of what it means… OL2965501W
Russian foreign policy in the post-Soviet era Russian foreign policy in the post-Soviet era Bobo Lo "In this work, Bobo Lo examines Russian foreign policy in the decade following the Soviet collapse. He shows how Moscow's approach to international relations arose naturally out of a fractured, disor… OL5957393W
Across the Moscow River Across the Moscow River Rodric Braithwaite "Rodric Braithwaite was British ambassador to Moscow during the critical years of Perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the failed coup of August 1991, and the rise of Boris Yeltsin. From… OL6209190W