Kremlin rising : Vladimir Putin's Russia and the end of revolution /
With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia launched itself on a fitful transition to Western-style democracy. But a decade later, Yeltsin's handpicked successor resolved to bring an end to the revolution. This book goes behind the scenes of contemporary Russia to reveal the culmination...
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New York :
Scribner,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Tatyana's Russia
- fifty-two hours in Beslan
- Project Putin
- Time of the patriots
- The takeover will be televised
- Just an ordinary crime
- Soul mates
- Boomtown
- Fifty-seven hours in Moscow
- Sick man of Europe
- Runaway army
- What sort of allies?
- Dictatorship of the law
- Back in the USSR
- Twilight of the oligarchs
- Agitation
- Putin's Russia
- Scam of the year
- Lenin was right after all
- Epilogue: After Beslan.