Description:
An insider's account of Soviet and Russian politics from Gorbachev's democratizing reforms in the 1980s to the current authoritarian Russia of Putin.
Brief description: Andrei A. Kovalev is a former member of the secretariat of President Mikhail Gorbachev. He worked in the Soviet and Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the staff of the Security Council of the Russian Federation during the Yeltsin and Putin administrations. He is the author of two books on Russian on politics.
Review Quotes: "[Kovalev] unmasks the Russian body politic in all its Gogol-like grotesquery."--Publishers Weekly-- (2/23/2019 12:00:00 AM)