Will the Empire ever end?

John Lloyd

  • Pandaemonium: Ethnicity in International Politics by Daniel Patrick Moynihan
    Oxford, 221 pp, £17.95, March 1993, ISBN 0 19 827787 3
  • Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor States edited by Ian Bremner and Ray Taras
    Cambridge, 577 pp, £55.00, December 1993, ISBN 0 521 43281 2
  • The Post-Soviet Nations edited by Alexander Motyl
    Columbia, 322 pp, £23.00, November 1993, ISBN 0 231 07894 3
  • The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence by Anatol Lieven
    Yale, 454 pp, £22.50, June 1993, ISBN 0 300 05552 8

Vladimir Zhirinovsky is a lens through which we can see the character of contemporary Russians close up and grotesquely exaggerated. The Zhirinovsky glass reveals and enlightens like a Francis Bacon portrait.

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Vol. 16 No. 2 · 27 January 1994 » John Lloyd » Will the Empire ever end? (print version)
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