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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Main Author: Baker, Peter, 1967-
Other Authors: Glasser, Susan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.