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No cover — Conradi, Peter (Journalist): Who lost Russia? (2017)

370 pages

English language

Published Nov. 5, 2017

ISBN:: 978-1-78607-041-8
OCLC Number:: 951452829

When the Soviet Union collapsed on December 26, 1991, it looked like the start of a remarkable new era of peace and co-operation. But Russia emerged from the 1990s battered and humiliated. Goaded on by a triumphant West, a new Russia has emerged with a large arsenal of upgraded weapons, conventional and nuclear, determined to reassert its national interests in Chechnya, Georgia and Ukraine, as well as fighting a proxy war in the Middle East. Conradi argues that we have consistently failed to understand Russia and its motives and, in doing so, have made a powerful enemy.

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A highly readable narrative about U.S. - Russian relations since the last days of the Soviet Union to the present. The author doesn't appear to have done original or archival research, but provides a solid journalistic account of recent history that suddenly matters a great deal.

Subjects

Politics and government
Political culture
Foreign relations

Places

Russia (Federation)
Western countries