My Russia: War or Peace?

In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a ''riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma'': we just don''t know enough about it. So what is the real story behind Putin''s autocratic regime and its invasion of Ukraine? In My Russia: War or Peace? Shishkin traces the roots of Russia''s problems, from the ''Kievan Rus'' via the Grand Duchy of Moscow, empire, revolution and Cold War, to the now thirty-year-old Russian Federation. He explores the uneasy relationship between state and citizens, explains Russian attitudes to people''s rights and democracy, and proposes that there are really two Russian peoples: the disillusioned and disaffected, who suffer from ''slave mentality'', and those who embrace ''European'' values and try to stand up to oppression. Both deeply personal and taking a broader historical view, My Russia is a passionate, eye-opening account of a state entangled in a complex and bloody past, as well as a love letter to a conflicted country. Will Russia continue its vicious circle of upheaval and autocracy, or will its people find a way out of history - and how can we help?

Product details

• Authors: Mikhail Shishkin, Shishkin Mikhail
• Assisted by: Gesche Ipsen (Translation), Ipsen Gesche (Translation)
• Publisher: Riverrun
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.2023
• EAN: 9781529427783
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-2778-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 218 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; History, Russia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Politics & government, HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Politics and government, HISTORY / Russia / General