The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War by Arkady Ostrovsky russian politics Anton Chekhov's stories and plays

Anton Chekhov's stories and plays endure

as outstanding modern literary models

while providing a fresh Donbas perspective on Ukrainian identity

Owen chronicles how both countries have responded to their geopolitical decline

Raicovich explains some of the key museum flashpoints

The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War by Arkady Ostrovsky russian politics Anton Chekhov's stories and playsWinner of the Orwell Prize Financial Times Book of the Year How did a country that embraced freedom thirty years ago end up as an autocratic police state bent once again on confrontation with the West? In this Orwell Prize winning book, Arkady Ostrovsky reaches back to the darkest days of the Cold War to tell the story of Russias stealthy and largely unchronicled post Soviet transformation. A highly regarded Moscow correspondent for the Economist,