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

384 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history politics tense slow-paced

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A highly original narrative history by The Economist’s Moscow bureau chief that does for modern Russia what Evan Osnos did for China in Age of Ambition The end of communism and breakup of the Soviet Union was a time of euphoria around the world, b...

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