The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past by Shaun Walker tarkovsky fierce social commentary and razor-sharp

fierce social commentary and razor-sharp wit

Karolina Pavlova's A Double Life alternates prose and poetry to offer a wry picture of Russian aristocratic society and vivid dreams of escaping its strictures

planned and executed by Russia's enemies in the West

While male homosexual acts were criminalised in Russia before 1993

what Russian Conservatism demonstrates is that such ideas are helpful in interpreting Russia's present as well as its past and will be influential in shaping Russia's future

The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past by Shaun Walker tarkovsky fierce social commentary and razor-sharpIn The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker provides a deeply reported, bottom up explanation of Russia's resurgence under Putin. By cleverly exploiting the memory of the Soviet victory over fascism in World War II, Putin's regime has made ordinary Russians feel that their country is great again. Shaun Walker provides new insight into contemporary Russia and its search for a new identity, telling the story through the country's troubled relationship with its