'An original and deeply knowledgeable take on Russia today from the UK's leading expert on Russian politics.'
Edwin Bacon, University of Lincoln
'In this important and engaging book, Sakwa lays low all-too-prevalent simplistic beliefs about Russia and its goals under Putin. Presenting a complex, developed society and a state struggling to create a Russian version of modernity, Russia's Futures provocatively calls for rethinking "Europe", the global order, and Russia's possible place therein.'
Henry Hale, The George Washington University
Preface
Introduction: multiple pasts and many futures
1. Getting Russia right
2. Power and ideas
3. Economy and development
4. State, people and the future
5. Making Russia great again
6. Russia's futures
Conclusion: Russia as challenger and challenged
Notes
Index
Richard Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent at Canterbury.