This book is about the events of a unique period in Russian history — from Gorbachev’s perestroika to the beginning of the tragic war with Ukraine. About its actors and performers. The author analyses when, how and why has modern Russia abandoned the idea and practice of modernisation and movement towards a democratic world. How and why did it return after 2012 to the «great Soviet past» and the establishment of Putin’s hybrid totalitarian regime with imperial ideology, including royal anachronisms, and transition to openly repressive actions against dissenters.
Is the emergence of a new Russian domestic and foreign policy possible?
It is especially valuable that the author of the book, Vladimir Ryzhkov, narrates and analyses the course of events not as an outside observer, but as a direct participant, having been a deputy of the Russian State Duma in relatively recent past.
Dlinnaya ten’ USSR [The Long Shadow of USSR]
Ocherk istokov vneshnepoliticheskogo povedeniya sovremennoj Rossii [Sketch of the origins of the foreign policy behavior of modern Russia]
Riga: School of Civic Education, 2023. — 288 pp. — («Timely Thought» series). ISBN 978−9934−9133−6−5
