Robert Cottrell has served as a Moscow bureau chief for both The Economist and the Financial Times. (June 2007)
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Death Under the Tsar
June 14, 2007
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
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The Emperor Vladimir
February 9, 2006
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
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The Emperor Putin
February 10, 2005
Cold Peace: Russia’s New Imperialism
by Janusz Bugajski
Inside Putin’s Russia: Can There be Reform Without Democracy?
by Andrew Jack
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An Icelandic Saga
November 4, 2004
Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended
by Jack F. Matlock Jr.
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Russia: Unmanifest Destiny
October 7, 2004
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
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Putin’s Trap
December 4, 2003
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
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L’Homme Nikita
May 1, 2003
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
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Big Money in the New Russia
June 13, 2002
The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia
by David E. Hoffman
Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970–2000
by Stephen Kotkin
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Overlapping Russians
November 15, 2001
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Russia: Was There a Better Way?
October 4, 2001
The Tragedy of Russia’s Reforms: Market Bolshevism Against Democracy
by Peter Reddaway and Dmitri Glinski
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Founding Father
April 26, 2001
My Six Years with Gorbachev
Anatoly S. Chernyaev, translated from the Russian and edited by Robert D. English and Elizabeth Tucker
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Mr. Bigsky
October 19, 2000
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
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It Still Flies
April 22, 1999
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Europe: So Far, It Flies
April 8, 1999
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
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Not Bad, Just Sad
February 18, 1999
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Chechnya: How Russia Lost
September 24, 1998
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
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Russia’s Dream City
April 23, 1998
New Atlantis Revisited: Akademgorodok, the Siberian City of Science
by Paul R. Josephson
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Russia: The New Oligarchy
March 27, 1997
Kremlin Capitalism: The Privatization of the Russian Economy by Joseph R. Blasi, by Maya Kroumova, by Douglas Kruse, foreword by Andrei Shleifer
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Denis Dutton, Intellectual Entrepreneur
January 12, 2011
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Moscow's Espionage Addiction
July 12, 2010