The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War by Arkady Ostrovsky

The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War

Arkady Ostrovsky with Michael Page (Narrator)

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nonfiction history politics tense slow-paced

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The end of communism and breakup of the Soviet Union was a time of euphoria around the world, but Russia today is violently anti-American and dangerously nationalistic. So how did we go from the promise of those days to the autocratic police state...

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