Volume 54, Number 10 · June 14, 2007
Death Under the Tsar
By Robert Cottrell
A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin's Russia
by Anna Politkovskaya, translated from the Russian by Arch Tait, with a foreword by Scott Simon
Random House, 369 pp., $25.95
You used to be able to view Russia optimistically as an emerging democracy with a lot of rough edges. Now it seems to be all rough edges and no democracy to speak of. It is disconcerting to find how accurate a guide Mussolini's 'Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism' can offer to the mood of the Kremlin under Vladimir Putin:
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