Robert Cottrell

Robert Cottrell has served as a Moscow bureau chief for both The Economist and the Financial Times. (June 2007)

From the Review

June 14, 2007: Death Under the Tsar

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

February 9, 2006: The Emperor Vladimir

Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy by Anna Politkovskaya, translated from the Russian by Arch Tait

Putin's Russia by Lilia Shevtsova,translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis

Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World by Andrew Wilson

February 10, 2005: The Emperor Putin

Cold Peace: Russia's New Imperialism by Janusz Bugajski

Inside Putin's Russia: Can There be Reform Without Democracy? by Andrew Jack

November 4, 2004: An Icelandic Saga

Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended by Jack F. Matlock Jr.

October 7, 2004: Russia: Unmanifest Destiny

Taming the Wild Field: Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe by Willard Sunderland

History, Memory, and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective Farm by Sigrid Rausing

The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold by Fiona Hill and Clifford G. Gaddy

December 4, 2003: Putin's Trap

Violent Entrepreneurs: The Use of Force in the Making of Russian Capitalism by Vadim Volkov

Across the Moscow River: The World Turned Upside Down by Rodric Braithwaite

State and Evolution: Russia's Search for a Free Market by Yegor Gaidar, translated from the Russian by Jane Ann Miller

May 1, 2003: L'Homme Nikita

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman

Conversations with Gorbachev: On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism by Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynár, translated from the Russian by George Shriver, with a foreword by Archie Brown

A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia by Alexander N. Yakovlev,translated from the Russian by Anthony Austin, with a foreword by Paul Hollander

June 13, 2002: Big Money in the New Russia

The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia by David E. Hoffman

Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970–2000 by Stephen Kotkin

November 15, 2001: Overlapping Russians (letter)

October 4, 2001: Russia: Was There a Better Way?

The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms: Market Bolshevism Against Democracy by Peter Reddaway and Dmitri Glinski

April 26, 2001: Founding Father

My Six Years with Gorbachev Anatoly S. Chernyaev, translated from the Russian and edited by Robert D. English and Elizabeth Tucker

October 19, 2000: Mr. Bigsky

Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of Russia by Paul Klebnikov

Sale of the Century: Russia's Wild Ride from Communism to Capitalism by Chrystia Freeland

April 22, 1999: It Still Flies

April 8, 1999: Europe: So Far, It Flies

This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair by Hugo Young. To be published in May.

Redrawing the Map of Europe by Michael Emerson

February 18, 1999: Not Bad, Just Sad (letter)

September 24, 1998: Chechnya: How Russia Lost

Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power by Anatol Lieven

Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus by Carlotta Gall, by Thomas de Waal

Russia Confronts Chechnya: Roots of a Separatist Conflict, Volume I by John B. Dunlop

Russia and Chechnia [sic]: The Permanent Crisis Essays on Russo-Chechen Relations edited by Ben Fowkes

April 23, 1998: Russia's Dream City

New Atlantis Revisited: Akademgorodok, the Siberian City of Science by Paul R. Josephson

March 27, 1997: Russia: The New Oligarchy

Kremlin Capitalism: The Privatization of the Russian Economy by Joseph R. Blasi, by Maya Kroumova, by Douglas Kruse, foreword by Andrei Shleifer

Books by Robert Cottrell

Blackball,the Black Sox,and the Babe: Baseball's Crucial 1920 Season (2001)
Roger Nash Baldwin and the American Civil Liberties Union (2000)
End of Hong Kong: The Secret Diplomacy of Imperial Retreat (1997)