Petrostate : Putin, power, and the new Russia /
In the aftermath of the financial collapse of August 1998, it looked as if Russia's day as a superpower had come and gone. That it should recover and reassert itself after less than a decade is nothing short of an economic and political miracle. Based on extensive research, including several in...
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Oxford ; New York :
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2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Russia, once again an energy superpower
- Russia as an early energy superpower
- World War II to 1987 : Russia looks inward and outward
- Pirates unleashed : privatization in the post-Soviet era
- Post-1998 recovery : the petroleum export bonanza
- Putin takes over : the return of the czar
- Natural gas : Russia's new secret weapon
- Russia : the unrestrained super energy power.