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Russia : myths and realities / Rodric Braithwaite.

by Braithwaite, Rodric, 1932-

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Pegasus Books, 2022.

Russia (Federation) -- History.

Soviet Union -- History.

Russia -- History.

Russia (Federation)

9781639362882 (hc.)

1st Pegasus Books cloth ed.

xi, 270 p. : maps ; 22 cm.

Sir Rodric Braithwaite was British Ambassador to Moscow during the crucial end of the Cold War (1988-92). Subsequently he was foreign policy advisor to British Prime Minister John Major. His previous books include the highly praised Moscow 1941 (Knopf) and Afgantsy (Oxford University Press). He lives in England.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"With its recent attack on Ukraine, Russia's future seems almost as uncertain as its past. The largest country in the world -- with the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons -- has been known over the past thousand years as Rus, Muscovy, the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union. Thirty years ago it was reinvented as the Russian Federation. Russia is not an enigma but its past is violent, tragic, sometimes glorious, and certainly complicated. Like the rest of the world, the Russians constantly rewrite their history. They, too, omit episodes of national disgrace in favor of patriotic anecdotes -- sometimes more rooted in myth than reality. Expert historian and fomer ambassador to Moscow Rodric Braithwaite unpicks fact from fiction to discover what lies at the root of the Russian story, now more relevant to the rest of the world than ever before." --Jacket.

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