Moscow, Maidan, and the Politics of Russia’s “Glorious Past”
Journal: Kritika
Year: 2019

Moscow, Maidan, and the Politics of Russia’s “Glorious Past” Walter Sperling Shaun Walker, The Long Hangover: Putin’s New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past. 288 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018, ISBN-13 978-0190659240. $29.95. It is a well-established tradition that foreign correspondents write general interest books about the country they are or were reporting on. To get the public’s attention, these books have to be written within a certain genre that prefers a personal narrative in