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Revised and updated edition, with a new introduction and a new final chapter.
Synopsis
Provides a panorama of Russia in the modern age. This book discusses Russia's unresolved economic and social difficulties and its determination to regain its leading role on the world stage and explains how the seven decades of communist rule which penetrated every aspect of life still continue to influence Russia today.