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by Edward Lucas (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (4 Feb 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0747595674
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747595670
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.2 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 252,995 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what is happening in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union today.' Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag 'It is high time for the West to analyse the facts and work out a counter-strategy.' Vladimir Bukovsky, Soviet political dissident and Russian presidential candidate 'We can only hope that, like Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton in 1946, this book will be a wake-up call for Western civilization.' Mart Laar, former Prime Minister of Estonia 'Absorbing an invaluable primer for students of the Russian situation and a cautionary tale for those who prefer to treat Russia as it pretends to be rather than as it is.' David Satter, author of Darkness at Dawn


Michael Burleigh, Evening Standard

'Highly informed, crisply written and alarming ... Wise up and stick together is the concluding message in Edward Lucas's outstanding book.'
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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars An interesting book but with a lot of rhetoric and lacking clarity , 16 Mar 2008
By eugen (Eindhoven, Netherlands) - See all my reviews
Although usually I do not bother to buy anymore books having cold war in the title this time knowing the author as a distingue Central and Eastern Europe editor of The Economist I made an exception. The book is certainly worth to read and gives an informative image of the present state and politics of Russia. The author makes a convincing case that Russia moved from a cleptocracy to a agressive autocracy and the West must deal decisievely with a agressive monopoly (Gazprom) run from Kremlin. But you must try hardly to find any relation between the title and the content. The case for a cold war agenda of Kremlin targeting more than our wallets is missing. Some chapters are excellent like the chapter analyzing the economic situation of Russia and the pipeline politics. But a lot of pages are spent on not related issues as Stalin years, Brejnev,Andropov. In many pages rhetoric about the new tsarism, new cold war is used in the detriment of arguments. I miss why we need to start a real cold war for backing with cold war tactics deplorable autocracies as Georgia and Armenia in their messy fight with other autocracy (Russia) about Russian minority living in this countries is missing. Contradictions in argumentation are also present . If Gazprom is a inefficient monopoly as how unable to rise his production as the book rightly argues how can be the pipeline politics and the hidden Kremlin agenda be taken seriously?. Overall a very good book but the reader must do sometimes a lot of effort to separate the excellent parts from rhetoric and sideline information.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The real Russia, 22 Mar 2008
By Jonathan Jensen (Surrey, UK) - See all my reviews
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I really enjoyed this book. A fascinating insight into the challenges facing Europe and the United States in their relationship with Russia. Provides a lot of detail on Russia today. Well worth reading.
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16 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars An Important Book, 26 Feb 2008
By T. R. Cowdret "Tommy C" (Nottingham England) - See all my reviews
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While every reader might not agree with every idea Lucas puts forward in this important book (Mr Berezovsky will certainly have a few words to say, I'm sure!), I think most would agree that it is an extremely interesting and on the whole accurate explanation of Russia's present relationship with the West.
Lucas has lived through much of what he writes about in this account and his first hand knowledge imbues this work with both detail and common sense. He has spent most of his journalistic career examining Russia and is therefore particularly well-placed to write such a useful book.
Although the ideas are dense and in some places extremely complex, Lucas writes with clarity and deftness.
A thoroughly interesting book.
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