Volume 48, Number 15 · October 4, 2001
Russia: Was There a Better Way?
By Robert Cottrell
The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms: Market Bolshevism Against Democracy
by Peter Reddaway and Dmitri Glinski
United States Institute of Peace Press, 745 pp., $29.95 (paper)
It was Victory Day in Russia when I finished reading The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms, and Moscow was celebrating the fifty-sixth anniversary of Hitler's defeat, the one event in Russian history which all Russians can agree to have been a great and glorious moment. In May 1945 Russia got it right. This is the holiday of which Russians will never tire.
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