[A] scholarly and well-informed survey of the first post-Soviet decade.
   --Orlando Figes, New York Review of Books

[Service's] latest work, Russia: Experiment With a People, is a balanced, thorough, thoughtful examination of Russia since the fall of Communism...Mr. Service's book isn't a quick read or an easy introduction to Russia. But it has the virtue of perspective, and he mixes a historian's scope with sharp observations about the last decade.
   --Liena Zagare, New York Sun

Service provides the most wide-ranging description yet of what has happened to Russia since it emerged from the rubble of the Soviet Union. Hardly an angle has been neglected, from the historical lineage of national identity and the residue of Soviet times to the excesses of popular culture and life in the village. The core of the book deals with politics: the character and failings of Russia's leaders, turning points in the struggle over reform, the manipulation of symbols and media, and relations between the center and outlying regions...It is a rich and variegated portrait of a wondrously complex society.
   --Foreign Affairs

This is the story of a "wasted historic opportunity" and Professor Service tells it well…However the project of 1992 has been largely abandoned, and this book, more than any other I know on the period, will explain why.
   --Beryl Williams, Russian Review

Robert Service is a Fellow of the British Academy and Professor of Russian History at Oxford University.

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• A History of Twentieth-Century Russia
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• Trotsky: A Biography
• A History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century, Third Edition