Ostrovsky has written a real insiders' story of Russia's post-Soviet "counter-revolution" - an important and timely book. Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain
Arkady Ostrovsky is a Russian-born, British journalist who has spent fifteen years reporting from Moscow, first for the Financial Times and then as a bureau chief for The Economist. He studied Russian theatre history in Moscow and holds a PhD in English Literature from Cambridge University. His translation of Tom Stoppard's trilogy, The Coast of Utopia, has been published and staged in Russia.