Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy more books like this

by Anna Politkovskaya

This devastating appraisal is a searing portrait of a country in disarray and of the man at its helm, from "the bravest of Russian journalists" ("The New York Times").

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Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall more books like this

by Andrew Meier

Post-Soviet Russia remains a country in limbo, a land of vast potential struggling with an unfinished past. Journeying to Russia's five corners - Moscow, Chechnya, Norilsk, Sakhalin and St. Petersburg - Andrew Meier presents a history of contemporary Russia. In Moscow and St. Petersburg Meier explores Russia's unbridles market and often lethal ...

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Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution more books like this

by Peter Baker, Susan Glasser

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia launched itself on a fitful transition to western style democracy. But with Vladimir Putin at the helm, the promise has vanished. KREMLIN RISING is the first book to go behind the scenes and reveal the secret history of 'Project Putin', the plot to seize back power in the Kremlin. After four years as ...

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Casino Moscow: A Tale of Greed and Adventure on Capitalism's Wildest Frontier more books like this

by Matthew Brzezinski

In this story of large-scale greed and corruption in post-Soviet Moscow, a Western journalist chronicles how billions of rubles were moved out of the country by politically connected Russian businessman, and how thug-like tactics have terrified foreign investors. Author Brzezinski assesses the toll on Russian citizens and examines the missed ...

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Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State more books like this

by Mr. David Satter

Anticipating a new dawn of freedom and democracy after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russians could hardly have foreseen the reality of their future a decade later: a country desperately impoverished and controlled at every level by criminals. This is the story of the 1990s reform period in Russia through the experiences of individual ...

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Black Earth City: When Russia Ran Wild (and So Did We) more books like this

by Charlotte Hobson

It is September 1991 and the dismantling of the Soviet Union is under way. In Hobson's record of this tumultuous time, she brings readers into the cramped, rundown Hostel no. 4, where international students and locals congregate. At once loving and sharp-edged, tender and brave, "Black Earth City" reveals a world and a woman as they open up to ...

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The Russian People Speak: Democracy at the Crossroads more books like this

by Nikolai Popov

This text examines Russian public opinion by showing the cultural values held by the Russian people amid the constant and volatile reforms. It shows how the public mind is attempting to reconcile a traditional Soviet attitude about strong egalitarian government and the demand for a free market.

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Understanding Contemporary Russia more books like this

by Michael L Bressler

"Understanding Contemporary Russia" provides a thorough introduction to this complex country as it confronts the challenges of today's interdependent world. Interdisciplinary in design, the book is intended for use as a core text in introductory survey and politics courses and also as a supplement in a variety of discipline-oriented courses.The ...

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The Post-Soviet Russian Media: Conflicting Signals more books like this

by Professor Birgit Beumers

This book explores developments in the Russian mass media since the collapse of the USSR in 1991. Complementing and building upon its companion volume, "Television and Culture in Putin's Russia: Remote Control", it traces the tensions resulting from the effective return to state-control under Putin of a mass media privatized and accorded its first ...

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Media, Culture and Society in Putin's Russia more books like this

by Stephen White (Editor)

The nature of the system that has been established in postcommunist Russia is still a puzzle for specialists as well as a broader public. It is hardly a 'democracy' in the Western sense - but neither is it a society in which Communists are still in power. The contributors to this volume, a group of leading international specialists who draw ...

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Contemporary Russia as a Feudal Society: A New Perspective on the Post-Soviet Era more books like this

by Vladimir Shlapentokh, Joshau Woods

The book offers a theoretical discussion of the feudal model and a preliminary application of the model to post-Soviet Russia. In addition to a review of the feudal model as an ideal type, the author explains the analytical benefits of drawing comparisons between countries and across historical contexts. Specifically, contemporary Russia is ...

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Russia, the wild east more books like this

by Ian Jack

This issue on Russia explores how an old country is finding new ways to think and write. As well as fiction by Russian writers, there is a report on a visit to the once unvisitable Siberia, interviews with the survivors of Stalin's gulag, and a discussion of the place of vodka in Russian culture.

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Needed by Nobody: Homelessness and Humanness in Post-Socialist Russia more books like this

by Tova Hjdestrand, Tova H'Ojdestrand

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Needed by Nobody: Homelessness and Humanness in Post-Socialist Russia more books like this

by Tova H'Ojdestrand, Tova Hjdestrand

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Rural Russia: Economic, Social and Moral Crisis more books like this

by L N Denisova

Contents: Introduction; The Main Peasant House; Village School; Illusions of School Well-Being; Universal Secondary Education : Truth vs. Statistics; Mass Culture and the Village; Mouthpiece and Everyday Life : Mass Media; Club and Rural Life; Unpaid Debts; Conclusion.

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Rusia En La Encrucijada more books like this

by Sara Gutierrez

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