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Title:
The invention of Russia : from Gorbachev's freedom to Putin's war
Publication Date as Range:
2015-2016
ISBN:
9780399564161
Physical Description:
374 pages ; 24 cm.
General Note:
First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Atlantic Books.
Contents:
I: In The Beginning Was The Word -- 1. Fathers and Sons -- 2. New Beginning or Dead End -- 3. "We Suffered a Victory" -- 4. Kommersant or the Birth of Russian Capitalism -- 5. Loss -- II: "Image Is Everything" -- 6. Normal Television in Abnormal Circumstances -- 7. The Oligarchs' War -- 8. Lights, Camera, Putin -- 9. Remote Control -- 10. Aerial Combat.
Abstract:
"A highly original narrative history by The Economists Moscow bureau chief that does for modern Russia what Evan Osnos did for China in Age of Ambition,"--Amazon.com.
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