Russia in Search of Itself

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Summary: A Struggle to Find Itself.
Review: Dr. Billington has been the Librarian of Congress since 1987. For at least thirty years he has studied Russia, both as a historian and cultural specialist. This is his sixth book on Russia.==This book is about how Russians have been thinking about their nation since the collapse. It is not a history of Russia, but an attempt to understand how the heirs of a great tradition are grappling under new conditions of freedom.

In many ways, the average Russian is worse off than before the collapse. How will this translate into voting for leaders in the coming years? Will Russia attempt to revert to its more authoritarian past? Can the country get through the times that it is now seeing and become an exemplory democracy? The book presents some interesting views based on talking with many Russian people.