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Shelf Life: Back from the USSR?(Book Review)(Brief Article)
From:
National Review
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August 11, 2003| Author:
Potemra, Michael
| COPYRIGHT 2003 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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'For the first time in this century, God has smiled on Russia." With these words, literary critic Yuri Karyakin greeted the fall of Soviet despotism in 1991. But the era of optimism was not to last long. In a stark and sobering new book, Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State (Yale, 314 pp., $29.95), longtime Moscow correspondent David Satter depicts post-Soviet Russia as a nightmare world of poverty, corruption, and violence.
Satter covered Russia for ...
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