.Eurasia


Black Earth

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 This is a profoundly ambitious attempt to piece together the whole of Russia by way of anecdote. It isn’t the work of analysis it sometimes thinks it is; but it is a troubling, often gripping and amazingly comprehensive portrait of...
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New Great Game, The

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 With a subtitle like “blood and oil” this book has the potential to be a leftist screed – and the presence of big oil and US coddling of tyrants provides ample material. But it’s not. It’s a clear-eyed survey of...
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Reeling in Russia

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 What legacy has Russia’s cruel history left the country? Fen Montaigne comes up against this question again and again in this engaging book about 1990s Russia. What happens to a country that, for decades, has suffered under a system that...
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Siberian Curse, The

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 Certain countries – certainly Russia – defy analysis because of the profound influence of one-off factors found nowhere else on earth. This provocative study claims to have found one: Russia is simply too cold. During the Cold War, Siberia was...
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