The invention of Russia from Gorbachev's freedom to Putin's war
The end of communism and breakup of the Soviet Union was a time of euphoria around the world, but Russia today is violently expansionary and dangerously nationalistic. So how did we go from the promise of those days to the autocratic police state of Putin new Russia? The Invention of Russia reaches...
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New York
Viking
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- I: In the beginning was the word
- Fathers and sons
- New beginning or dead end
- "We suffered a victory"
- Kommersant or the birth of Russian capitalism
- Loss
- II: "Image is everything"
- Normal television in abnormal circumstances
- The oligarchs' war
- Lights, camera, Putin
- Remote control
- Aerial combat