Russia Books & Reviews

Servants, Masters, and the Art of Bantering

Richard Grenier | Mar 01, 1994
There is something indescribably wrong, we're compelled to feel, about a man completely enslaving his spirit to that of another man. The Remains of the Day, in both its literary and movie form, tells a highly didactic story. With all the respect d

A Dubious Partnership; Review of Fred C. Ikle and Sergei A. Karaganov, (co-chairs), Harmonizing the Evolution of U.S. and Russian Defense Policies

James Sherr | Mar 01, 1994
At one time conservatives like Castlereagh, nationalists like Bismarck and internationalists like Gladstone were all convinced that international order would be torn apart unless the interests of Great Powers were respected and kept in balance. Th

Success Story; Review of David Marsh, The Most Powerful Bank: Inside Germany's Bundesbank

Alan Walters | Mar 01, 1994
Marsh is a gifted journalist and his command of events is most impressive, but he does not have the same respect for ideas as he does for the nitty-gritty of reportage.

Unclear and Present Danger

Raymond Vernon | Dec 01, 1993
The simple geo-economic idea of the relentlessly adversarial state is a threadbare concept, badly in need of overhauling. And Mr. Luttwak's book is not the first step in that process

Russia's Extreme Right; Review of Walter Laqueur, Black Hundred: The Rise of the Extreme Right in Russia (New York: HarperCollins, 1993)

Paul A. Goble | Sep 01, 1993
Russian nationalism is the most important but least understood force to have emerged from the shadows following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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