Russia: Lost in Transition: The Yeltsin and Putin Legacies

by Lilia Shevtsova

Book Overview

Russian history is first and foremost a history of personalized power. As Russia startles the international community with its assertiveness and faces both parliamentary and presidential elections, Lilia Shevtsova searches the histories of the Yeltsin and Putin regimes. She explores within them conventional truths and myths about Russia, paradoxes of Russian political development, and Russia's role in the world. Russia--Lost in Transition discovers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870032364
• ISBN13: 9780870032363
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.4"