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Featured Categories : Society, Politics & Philosophy : Government & Politics : Countries & Regions : Europe : Russia

• Soviet Politics in Perspective

  Richard Sakwa

  
  
   

• Russia Under the Old Regime (Penguin history)

  Richard Pipes

  
  
   

• Sale of the Century: The Inside Story of the Second Russian Revolution

  Chrystia Freeland

  
  "Everything Marx told us about communism was false. But it turns out that everything he told us about capitalism was true". So says one Russian friend of Chrystia Freeland, author of the remarkable Sale of the Century: The Inside Story of the Second Russian Revolution, which tells the story of "Russia's flawed capitalist revolution" from Boris Yeltsin's election as president of Russia in 1991 to his resignation on the last day of 1999.

  Freeland spent three years as the Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times between 1995 and 1998, leaving her uniquely placed to write one of the first accounts of Russia's exhilarating, but also painful and desperate transition from communism to capitalism in the final years of the 20th century. She charts the initial hope inspired by the young reformers led by Anatoly Chubais and Yegor Gaidar, who introduced the free market "shock therapy" in 1992 which kick-started the Russian capitalist economy, to the corruption and cynicism of the oligarchs like Vladimir Gusinsky and Boris Berezovsky, who got rich quick by seizing the valuable remnants of the old Soviet economy and (in some cases literally) making a killing. Freeland tells a fascinating story as she travels the country from the Siberian gas fields to the inner sanctums of the Moscow oligarchs. In the process she comes to realise that "Russia had freed itself from communism but not from the communist legacy; it had constructed its own capitalist system, only to discover it had built the wrong kind." This is an absorbing and highly readable book detailing history in the making, as one the world's most powerful nations teeters on the brink of renewal or disaster; if Marx could read Sale of the Century, he would undoubtedly applaud. --Jerry Brotton

  
   

• Contemporary Russian Politics: A Reader

  
  
   

• The Soviet Union in World Politics (Making of the Contemporary World)

  Geoffrey Roberts

  
  
   

• Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent: Faith and Power in the New Russia

  John Garrard, Carol Garrard

  
  
   

• Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors

  Leona Toker

  
  
   

• Dissolution: Sovereignty and the Breakup of the Soviet Union (Soviet Bloc and After)

  Edward W. Walker

  
  
   

• Russia: Re-emerging Great Power (Studies in Central and Eastern Europe)

  
  
   

• Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990s: A Minority Faith

  Andrew Wilson

  
  
   

• Russian Foreign Policy Beyond Putin (Adelphi Papers)

  Eugene B. Rumer

  
  
   

• Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation and the Spatial Histories of Modernity

  Phillip E. Wegner

  
  
   

• Russia After Communism (Special issue of The Journal of Communist Studies & Transition Politics)

  Rick Fawn, Stephen White

  
  
   

• Russian Foreign Policy and the CIS (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)

  Nicole J. Jackson

  
  
   

• Russian Imperialism: The Interaction of Domestic and Foreign Policy, 1860-1914

  Thomas Geyer

  
  
   

• The New Russian Diplomacy

  Igor S. Ivanov

  
  
   

• Odessa, 1941-1944: A Case Study of Soviet Territory Under Foreign Rule

  Alexander Dallin

  
  
   

• The Formation of Political Parties and the First National Elections in Russia

  Terence Emmons

  
  
   

• Lenin's Government: Sovnarkom 1917 - 1922 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies)

  T. H. Rigby

  
  
   

• Gorbachev and Yeltsin as Leaders

  George W. Breslauer