Russia First: Breaking with the West

by Peter Truscott

Book Overview

For 200 years Russia has had a love-hate relationship with the West. Anxious on the one hand to emulate Western institutions, ideas and lifestyles, while on the other, strongly nationalistic and suspicious of Western political and cultural encroachment. All signs show, argues the author, that Russia is leading back towards more comfortable and familiar territory away from the West. With most shades of Russian political opinion now firmly set on a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1860641997
• ISBN13: 9781860641992
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 8.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.2"