THE INVENTION OF RUSSIA: THE JOURNEY FROM GORBACHEV’S FREEDOM TO PUTIN’S WAR

Book ID/图书代码： 11701215B80799

English Summary/英文概要： "By tracing the history of modern Russia from Mikhail Gorbachev to the rise of ex KGB agent Vladimir Putin, Arkady Ostrovsky reveals how the Soviet Union came to its end and how Russia has since reinvented itself. Russia today bears little resemblance to the country that embraced freedom in the late eighties and gave freedom to others. But how did a country that had liberated itself from seventy years of Communism end up, just twenty years later, as one of the biggest threats to the West and above all to its own people? The Invention of Russia tells the story of this tumultuous period, including the important role played by the media, and shows how Russia turned its back on the West and found itself embracing a new era of Soviet-style rule."

Chinese Summary/中文概要： Arkady Ostrovsky研究戈尔巴乔夫及前克格勃特工普京的崛起，追溯现代俄罗斯的历史，揭示了苏联解体以及俄罗斯自我改造的过程。现在的俄罗斯与上世纪80年代末崇尚自由、给予自由的那个国家已经大相径庭。这个将自己从70年的共产主义中解放出来的国家是如何用了20年的时间变成西方以及她自己人民的威胁？本书讲述了这个动荡的时期，包括媒体在其中扮演的重要角色，并揭示了俄罗斯是如何背离西方国家，拥抱苏式规则的新纪元的。这个有关俄罗斯知识分子及后苏联时期转型的故事也是他通过西方视角讲述的个人经历。本书内容基于各种专访、历史文献和多年的第一手经验。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：Russian-born British journalist Arkady Ostrovsky has won the Orwell Prize for Books 2016 for The Invention of Russia

‘Ostrovsky has written a real insiders’ story of Russia’s post-Soviet “counter-revolution” – an important and timely book.’ Anne Applebaum

‘How post-Soviet Russia got from there to here makes a gripping story, told here brilliantly by a writer who watched it unfolding.’ Tom Stoppard

‘Essential, timely, and always gripping, Arkady Ostrovsky’s book explains today’s reinvention of Russia, from the fall of the USSR to the rise of Putin, by chronicling the power, the money and the media with the nuanced analysis of a Moscow veteran and the narrative flair of a true chronicler of the mysteries of the Kremlin.’ Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

‘For a decade Arkady Ostrovsky has been the most insightful foreign correspondent in Moscow, and in The Invention of Russia he uses his deep understanding of the country he loves to tell the gripping, tragic story of its recent history. A brilliantly original, illuminating and essential book.’ A. D. Miller, Booker-shortlisted author of Snowdrops and The Faithful Couple

‘Russia has always been a place where intellectuals, propagandists, viziers and prophets have played a grand role. All the gangster, KGB and oligarch focused analyses of the country’s recent history have overlooked the men of ideas behind the tumultuous changes. Now comes Arkady Ostrovsky, with a detailed, gripping intellectual history of the newspaper editors, ideologues, television gurus and spin doctors who "invented post-Soviet Russia".’ Peter Pomerantsev, author of Nothing is True and Everything is Possible

‘Russia’s surprisingly free media were once a powerful instrument of reform. In his illuminating and saddening account, Arkady Ostrovsky tells how all but a very few have turned instead – deliberately, cynically, and on behalf of the state – to creating the distorted image of reality which shapes the country today.’ Sir Rodric Braithwaite, former British Ambassador to Russia and the USSR

‘Arkady Ostrovsky’s dazzling book flags up the conflicts over ideas, morality and national destiny in Moscow politics from Gorbachev to Putin – a triumph of narrative skill and historical empathy based on personal experience and rigorous research.’ Robert Service, author of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin

‘For many Russians and most foreign observers the defeat of the coup against Gorbachev in the summer of 1991 seemed to herald an age in which liberty would triumph in Russia and the country would join the Western community of peoples. The turn to authoritarian nationalism at home and confrontation with the West is a source of dismay and even despair. Arkady Ostrovsky traces the descent from the heady days of 1991 with deep local knowledge, a journalist’s fluent style and sharp eye for detail, and wit. He places much of the blame on those who owned and dominated the media in the fifteen years after the fall of the Soviet Union.’ Professor Dominic Lieven, author of Towards the Flame and Russia Against Napoleon

‘I was gripped by Arkady Ostrovsky’s book. This is essential reading for anyone wishing to be more precisely informed about Russia today.’ Ralph Fiennes

About the Author/作者介绍： Arkady Ostrovsky在俄罗斯出生并长大，他在莫斯科学习戏剧历史，后在剑桥大学获得了英语文学博士学位。1996年，26岁的他成为了《金融时报》的第一位俄罗斯记者并于2003年担任其莫斯科记者。2007年，他成为了《经济学家》驻莫斯科首席记者，撰写有关俄罗斯政治及社会的文章。他是个活跃的广播人，还将汤姆??斯托帕德的作品翻译成俄语。

Born and bred in Russia, Arkady Ostrovsky studied drama and theatre history in Moscow and received his Ph.D in English literature from the University of Cambridge. In 1996, aged 25, he became the first ever Russian journalist to join the Financial Times and in 2003 was appointed the FT’s Moscow correspondent. In 2007 he became the Moscow Bureau Chief for the Economist writing extensively about Russian politics and society. He is a frequent broadcaster and the translator of Tom Stoppard’s work into Russian. The story of the Russian intelligentsia and its post-Soviet transformation is also his personal story, told through Western eyes. It is based on exclusive interviews, historic documents and years of first-hand experience.

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：UK: Atlantic (delivered May 2015; pub October 2015); Russia: Corpus

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