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Book

Putin's Russia : life in a failing democracy

Call Number

  • 947.086 P769 (CEN)

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Edition

1st American ed.

Publication Information

New York : Metropolitan Books, 2005.

Physical Description

274 p. ; 25 cm.

Notes

Originally published: London : Harvill Press, 2004.

Contents

  • My country's army and its mothers
  • Our new middle ages, or war criminals of all the Russias
  • Tanya, Misha, Lena, and Rinat: where are they now?
  • How to misappropriate property with the connivance of the government
  • More stories from the provinces
  • Nord-Ost: the latest tale of destruction
  • Akaky Akakievich Putin II.

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