With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev's great grand-daughter, and an ex-pat living and reporting on Russia and the Soviet Union since 1983, Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler offer a poignant exploration of the largest country on earth through their recreation of Vladimir Putin's fabled New Year's Eve speech planned across all eleven time zones.
After taking over from Yeltsin in 1999, and then being elected president in a landslide, Putin traveled to almost two dozen countries and a quarter of Russia's eighty-nine regions to connect with ordinary Russians. His travels inspired the idea of a rousing New Year's Eve address delivered every hour at midnight throughout Russia's eleven time zones. The idea was beautiful, but quickly abandoned as an impossible feat. He correctly intuited, however, that the success of his presidency would rest on how the country's outback citizens viewed their place on the world stage.
Today more than ever, Putin is even more determined to present Russia as a formidable nation. We need to understand why Russia has for centuries been an adversary of the West. Its size, nuclear arsenal, arms industry, and scientific community (including cyber-experts), guarantees its influence.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Includes a frontispiece map plus one 8-page color photograph insert
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Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 143 mm
Dicke: 27 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-250-16323-3 (9781250163233)
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Nina Khrushcheva is the author of Imagining Nabokov and The Lost Khrushchev, and a Professor of International Affairs at New School University. Her work has appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Financial Times among others.
A contributing editor at The Atlantic and a New York Times Notable author, Jeffrey Tayler has reported on Russia and the former Soviet Union for Foreign Policy, Harper's Magazine, National Geographic, and more. He lives in Moscow.
