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Service provides the most wide-ranging description yet of what has happened to Russia since it emerged from the rubble of the Soviet Union. Hardly an angle has been neglected, from the historical lineage of national identity and the residue of Soviet times to the excesses of popular culture and life in the village. The core of the book deals with politics: the character and failings of Russia's leaders, turning points in the struggle over reform, the manipulation of symbols and media, and relations between the center and outlying regions...It is a rich and variegated portrait of a wondrously complex society.
This is the story of a \"wasted historic opportunity\" and Professor Service tells it well... However the project of 1992 has been largely abandoned, and this book, more than any other I know on the period, will explain why. -- Beryl Williams "Russian Review"
İA¨ scholarly and well-informed survey of the first post-Soviet decade. -- Orlando Figes "New York Review of Books" (10/23/2003)
İService's¨ latest work, "Russia: Experiment With a People," is a balanced, thorough, thoughtful examination of Russia since the fall of Communism...Mr. Service's book isn't a quick read or an easy introduction to Russia. But it has the virtue of perspective, and he mixes a historian's scope with sharp observations about the last decade. -- Liena Zagare "New York Sun" (01/07/2004)
read or an easy introduction to Russia. But it has the virtue of perspective, and he mixes a historian's scope with sharp observations about the last decade.
the manipulation of symbols and media, and relations between the center and outlying regions...It is a rich and variegated portrait of a wondrously complex society.
[A] scholarly and well-informed survey of the first post-Soviet decade.--Orlando Figes"New York Review of Books" (10/23/2003)
[Service's] latest work, "Russia: Experiment With a People," is a balanced, thorough, thoughtful examination of Russia since the fall of Communism...Mr. Service's book isn't a quick read or an easy introduction to Russia. But it has the virtue of perspective, and he mixes a historian's scope with sharp observations about the last decade.--Liena Zagare"New York Sun" (01/07/2004)
[Service's] latest work, Russia: Experiment With a People, is a balanced, thorough, thoughtful examination of Russia since the fall of Communism...Mr. Service's book isn't a quick read or an easy introduction to Russia. But it has the virtue of perspective, and he mixes a historian's scope with sharp observations about the last decade.--Liena Zagare"New York Sun" (01/07/2004)
This is the story of a "wasted historic opportunity" and Professor Service tells it well...However the project of 1992 has been largely abandoned, and this book, more than any other I know on the period, will explain why.--Beryl Williams "Russian Review "
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This is the story of a \"wasted historic opportunity\" and Professor Service tells it well... However the project of 1992 has been largely abandoned, and this book, more than any other I know on the period, will explain why. -- Beryl Williams "Russian Review"
İA¨ scholarly and well-informed survey of the first post-Soviet decade. -- Orlando Figes "New York Review of Books" (10/23/2003)
İService's¨ latest work, "Russia: Experiment With a People," is a balanced, thorough, thoughtful examination of Russia since the fall of Communism...Mr. Service's book isn't a quick read or an easy introduction to Russia. But it has the virtue of perspective, and he mixes a historian's scope with sharp observations about the last decade. -- Liena Zagare "New York Sun" (01/07/2004)
read or an easy introduction to Russia. But it has the virtue of perspective, and he mixes a historian's scope with sharp observations about the last decade.
the manipulation of symbols and media, and relations between the center and outlying regions...It is a rich and variegated portrait of a wondrously complex society.
[A] scholarly and well-informed survey of the first post-Soviet decade.--Orlando Figes"New York Review of Books" (10/23/2003)
[Service's] latest work, "Russia: Experiment With a People," is a balanced, thorough, thoughtful examination of Russia since the fall of Communism...Mr. Service's book isn't a quick read or an easy introduction to Russia. But it has the virtue of perspective, and he mixes a historian's scope with sharp observations about the last decade.--Liena Zagare"New York Sun" (01/07/2004)
[Service's] latest work, Russia: Experiment With a People, is a balanced, thorough, thoughtful examination of Russia since the fall of Communism...Mr. Service's book isn't a quick read or an easy introduction to Russia. But it has the virtue of perspective, and he mixes a historian's scope with sharp observations about the last decade.--Liena Zagare"New York Sun" (01/07/2004)
This is the story of a "wasted historic opportunity" and Professor Service tells it well...However the project of 1992 has been largely abandoned, and this book, more than any other I know on the period, will explain why.--Beryl Williams "Russian Review "
The first history of modern Russia from 1991 to the present day by one of the leading historians of the 20th century USSR and Russia.
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- PublisherHarvard University Press
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0674021088
- ISBN 13 9780674021082
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages432
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