by Daniel Treisman (Author)
Professor Daniel Treisman answers some of scholars' most pressing questions that haunt modern day Russia. Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate, and could its collapse have been avoided? Did Yeltsin destroy too much or too little of the Soviet political order? What explains Putin's unprecedented popularity with the Russian public? How did the oligarchs reshape the Russian economy?
Treisman suggests that these questions can be answered by looking back through the dynamic political and social traditions of the region. Rigorous rather than rhetorical, this book uses historically documented evidence with modern day conditions to paint a complete picture of Russia today. In a time when global politics are more important than ever, it is critical for us to understand the inner workings.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Publisher: The Free Press
Published: 02 Feb 2012
ISBN 10: 1416560726
ISBN 13: 9781416560722
--Rodric Braithwaite, former UK ambassador to the Soviet Union and Russia, author of Across the Moscow River: The World Turned Upside Down and Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War
--Michael Mandelbaum, author, The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era
--James Goldgeier, George Washington University
--Anders Aslund, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics