In The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker provides new insight into contemporary Russia and its search for a new identity, telling the story through the country's troubled relationship with its Soviet past. Walker not only explains Vladimir Putin's goals and the government's official manipulations of history, but also focuses on ordinary Russians and their motivations. He charts how Putin raised victory in World War II to the status of a national founding myth in the search for a unifying force to heal a divided country, and shows how dangerous the ramifications of this have been. The book explores why Russia, unlike Germany, has failed to come to terms with the darkest pages of its past: Stalin's purges, the Gulag, and the war deportations. The narrative roams from the corridors of the Kremlin to the wilds of the Gulags and the trenches of east Ukraine. It puts the annexation of Crimea and the newly assertive Russia in the context of the delayed fallout of the Soviet collapse.
Packed with analysis but told mainly through vibrant reportage, The Long Hangover is a thoughtful exploration of the legacy of the Soviet collapse and how it has affected life in Russia and Putin's policies.
© 2018 HighBridge Audio (Ljudbok): 9781681688404
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 2 januari 2018
In The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker provides new insight into contemporary Russia and its search for a new identity, telling the story through the country's troubled relationship with its Soviet past. Walker not only explains Vladimir Putin's goals and the government's official manipulations of history, but also focuses on ordinary Russians and their motivations. He charts how Putin raised victory in World War II to the status of a national founding myth in the search for a unifying force to heal a divided country, and shows how dangerous the ramifications of this have been. The book explores why Russia, unlike Germany, has failed to come to terms with the darkest pages of its past: Stalin's purges, the Gulag, and the war deportations. The narrative roams from the corridors of the Kremlin to the wilds of the Gulags and the trenches of east Ukraine. It puts the annexation of Crimea and the newly assertive Russia in the context of the delayed fallout of the Soviet collapse.
Packed with analysis but told mainly through vibrant reportage, The Long Hangover is a thoughtful exploration of the legacy of the Soviet collapse and how it has affected life in Russia and Putin's policies.
© 2018 HighBridge Audio (Ljudbok): 9781681688404
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 2 januari 2018
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Kristian
13 juni 2022
Excellent! For anyone who had read this book before the current crisis should not have come as a surprise...
Vlad
20 juli 2020
Slightly simplified and selective on key subjects of contemporary Russia, but overall a solid and true analysis
Thomas
20 apr. 2022
gives a good understanding of the russian way of thinking through real persons life stories
Anders
6 okt. 2022
Absolut en lärobok för att beskriva Ryska elitens/aristokratins omättliga makthunger och bedrägliga utnyttjande av dess livegna befolkning för att uppnå girighetsmålen.
Joel
11 feb. 2023
Ger en något mer nyanserad bild av konflikten i Ukraina än nyheter och andra böcker. Man får i boken höra hur flera personer i Donbass och Krim ser på Ukraina och Ryssland. Dock innan den fullskaliga invasionen 2022.
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