Arkady Ostrovsky

The Invention of Russia (eBook, ePUB)

The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016

REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION

How did a country that embraced freedom over twenty-five years ago end up as an autocratic police state bent once again on confrontation with the West? In this Orwell Prize-winning book, Arkady Ostrovsky reaches back to the darkest days of the Cold War to tell the story of Russia's stealthy and largely unchronicled post-Soviet transformation.

Ostrovsky's knowledge of many of the key players allows him to explain the rise of Vladimir Putin and to reveal how he pioneered a new form of demagogic populism. In a new preface he examines Putin's influence on the US election and explores how his methods - weaponizing the media and serving up fake news - came to enter Western politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Atlantic Books
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782397410
• Artikelnr.: 43101437

Autorenporträt

Arkady Ostrovsky is a Russian-born, British journalist who has spent fifteen years reporting from Moscow, first for the Financial Times and then as a bureau chief for The Economist. He studied Russian theatre history in Moscow and holds a PhD in English Literature from Cambridge University. His translation of Tom Stoppard's trilogy, The Coast of Utopia, has been published and staged in Russia.

Rezensionen

Ostrovsky has written a real insiders' story of Russia's post-Soviet "counter-revolution" - an important and timely book. Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain