The Invention of Russia - The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War

Informationen zum Autor Arkady Ostrovsky Klappentext Arkady Ostrovsky is a Russian-born, British journalist who has spent fifteen years reporting from Moscow, first for the Financial Times and then as a bureau chief for The Economist . He studied Russian theatre history in Moscow and holds a PhD in English Literature from Cambridge University. His translation of Tom Stoppard's trilogy, The Coast of Utopia , has been published and staged in Russia.The timely and gripping story of Russia since the collapse of Communism, by The Economist 's Moscow bureau chief. Zusammenfassung The timely and gripping story of Russia since the collapse of Communism, by The Economist's Moscow bureau chief.

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Ostrovsky has written a real insiders' story of Russia's post-Soviet "counter-revolution" - an important and timely book. Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain

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• Authors: Arkady Ostrovsky, Arkady (Author) Ostrovsky, Ostrovsky Arkady
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.09.2015
• EAN: 9780857891587
• ISBN: 978-0-85789-158-7
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 243 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book; Ethnic Studies, Eastern Europe, Russia, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: general, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Former Soviet Union, Politics & government, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Politics and government, General and world history, c 1990 to c 1999, Biography: historical, political and military, USSR, Soviet Union, Political leaders and leadership