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Amid drastic new changes, what path will Russia follow?

Publication: The Washington Times
Publication Date: 22-AUG-04 		Format: Online - approximately 884 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Amid drastic new changes, what path will Russia follow?(BOOKS)

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Byline: Martin Sieff , SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The Soviet Union in its closing decades was a lot less powerful than it appeared; Russia in the first decades of its democratic transition is a lot more powerful, in terms of its continuing key or "swing" role in world affairs, than it appears. And it is this that makes James Billington's new book so important - and troubling.

Mr. Billington has long been a national treasure. The current librarian of Congress, he is also incontestably our greatest living expert on Russian history and culture. He always takes the magisterial long-term perspective without losing track of or disdaining the kaleidoscopic confusion of current events.

Modest in scale (but not conception) by the standards of his earlier masterpieces such as "The Icon and...

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