Who lost Russia?
Subtitle: how the world entered a new Cold War
By: Peter Conradi
Publisher: Oneworld Publications Ltd
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781786070418
Subjects: Politics and government; Political culture; Foreign relations
Description: When the Soviet Union collapsed on December 26, 1991, it looked like the start of a remarkable new era of peace and co-operation. But Russia emerged from the 1990s battered and humiliated. Goaded on by a triumphant West, a new Russia has emerged with a large arsenal of upgraded weapons, conventional and nuclear, determined to reassert its national interests in Chechnya, Georgia and Ukraine, as well as fighting a proxy war in the Middle East. Conradi argues that we have consistently failed to understand Russia and its motives and, in doing so, have made a powerful enemy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-361) and index.
Table of contents: title: I. The time of troubles. The ties that bind ; The boys in pink trousers ; In search of a new Marshall Plan ; Stockholm Syndrome ; Eastward bound ; Bill and Ol' Boris ; A fatal error? ; Kosovo; title: II. Rebirth. A new start ; A sense of Putin's soul ; From 9/11 to Iraq ; Mission accomplished ; The Colour Revolutions ; Munich ; The trap; title: III. The hot peace. Overload ; Silicon Valley ; The return of the chief ; Ukraine ; A piece of paradise ; "You do it too" ; Towards Eurasia ; The Siberian Candidate ; Three faces of Russia.