title: The long hangover: Putin's new Russia and the ghosts of the past
abstract: Shaun Walker demonstrates an impressive range of strengths in his study of the dominant official and, for that matter, popular Russian narrative on the country's past—and the future that, in Russian eyes, it deserves as a result. He has considerable grounding in Soviet and Russian history, significant experience as a foreign journalist based in Moscow and a natural human empathy which has enabled him to reach out to a broad spectrum of Russian citizens, both ethnically Russian and those from oth
journal: International Affairs