Conversations on Russia: Reform from Yeltsin to Putin By Padma Desai
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA 2006-04-13 | 398 Pages | ISBN: 0195300610 | PDF | 1.2 MB
Much of the discussion of Russia's recent post-Communist history has amounted, both in Russia and the West, to a series of monologues by strong-minded people with starkly divergent views. In contrast, Padma Desai's conversations with influential, intelligent participants and observers provide the reader with a broad, nuanced view of what has and has not happened in the last fourteen years, and why…