by EdwardLucas (Author)
With a preface by Norman Davies, author of Europe: A History. Revised and updated following Russia's attack on Georgia. No longer the sick man of Europe, Russia is run by an authoritarian ex-KGB regime with the cash to put its ideas into practice. Under Vladimir Putin's autocratic rule, it silences its critics and bullies its neighbours. The murders of Anna Politkovskaya and Aleksander Litvinenko have sent a grim warning to other critics and the sham presidential 'election' in 2007 that put Dmitry Medvedev in the Kremlin as Putin's hand-picked successor showed how Russia's rulers, not the voters, dictate the country's political future. The New Cold War explains the Kremlin's use of energy blockades and trade sanctions, military sabre-rattling and propaganda wars against its neighbours - and why a divided and demoralised West is responding so feebly. It is an incisive and disturbing account of why we are perilously close to defeat - and how we can still win.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 02 Feb 2009
ISBN 10: 0747596360
ISBN 13: 9780747596363
Book Overview: Revised and updated for the paperback edition, The New Cold War now also addresses Russia following the 2008 Presidential Election and invasion of Georgia. New preface from Norman Davies, the bestselling author of Europe: A History Over 7,000 hardbacks have sold through BookScan and an intensive series of sell-out author events Selected for Newsnight's Book Club and discussed on air with Jeremy Paxman and Edward Lucas