The return : Russia's journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev / Daniel Treisman.

The return : Russia's journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev / Daniel Treisman.

First Free Press edition.

9781416560715
1416560718
9781416560722 (pbk.)
1416560726 (pbk.)

New York : Free Press, 2011.

English

xi, 523 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

JN6695 .T74 2011

947.086

Drawing on two decades of research, Treisman analyzes the paradoxes in Russian politics and society, illuminating why the disintegration of the U.S.S.R. wasn't more violent, the repercussions of the Chechen wars, the "sacred place" vodka holds in the Russian imagination (and its pernicious effect on Russia's demographics), and how, 20 years after the fall of communism, relations between Russia and the U.S. remain so frosty. Yet as Treisman convincingly argues, most of the world's international problems--nuclear proliferation, Islamic terrorism, global warming--will be difficult to solve without Russia's help

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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