Walker, Shaun (Journalist),

The long hangover : Putin's new Russia and the ghosts of the past / Shaun Walker. - 278 pages : maps ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-271) and index.

A first-tier nation -- The sacred war -- Chechnya : the deal -- Kolyma : the end of the earth -- The Olympic dream -- Ukraine is not dead yet -- The Crimea gambit -- The Crimean Tatars -- Russian Crimea -- Donbass : the spiral -- War -- After the war.

"The Long Hangover is a new insight into contemporary Russia told through the country's troubled relationship with its Soviet past. The psychological burden of the Soviet collapse, and the attempts to marshal history in the service of a new national identity, help explain the newly resurgent Russia and the war in Ukraine."--

9780190659240

2017015739


Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-


Russia (Federation)--Politics and government--1991-
Russia (Federation)--History.

DK510.763 / .W34 2018

947.086 WAL.L