Destination in Doubt Russia Since 1989

by Lovell, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9781842776643
• ISBN10: 1842776649
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-03
• Publisher: Zed Books

Summary

This book is a short history of Russia since the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. In a matter of months, Russia was apparently demoted from "evil empire" to despondent poor relation of the prosperous West. Yet the country also seemed extraordinarily -- and alarmingly -- open to all manner of political outcomes: from the return of Communism to the creation and consolidation of liberal democracy. Many of the scripts written for Russia in 1991 have had to be drastically revised in subsequent years. This book is a historian's attempt to stand back from the turbulent post-Soviet era and inquire into the nature of the "Second Russian Revolution."

Author Biography

Stephen Lovell is Reader in Modern European History at King's College, London.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vi
Introduction	p. 11
What was Soviet socialism?	p. 11
The state: death and rebirth?	p. 17
Democratization?	p. 40
Birth of a nation?	p. 67
A free market?	p. 89
Surviving post-socialism	p. 113
Russia's war on terror	p. 136
Afterword	p. 160
Chronology	p. 163
Notes	p. 166
Guide to further reading	p. 176
Index	p. 179
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