Publisher's Synopsis
Despite its size and geography, Russia is by history and long tradition a European country. The author of this pamphlet argues that - despite the financial collapse of August 1998 - slow, bumpy progress towards a Russian version of liberal democracy and market economics remains a plausible outcome.;Meanwhile, he suggests, the Russians will have to work even harder if they are to overcome their post-imperial trauma and shake off a legacy of authoritarian politics and militarised economics.
