The Long Hangover

Walker provides informative analysis and lively interviews with a gallery of 'winners' and (mainly) 'losers' from the fall-out of the collapse of Stalinism and the restoration of capitalism.

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Shaun Walker is the Moscow correspondent for The Guardian. He studied Russian and Soviet history at Oxford University, and has worked as a journalist in Moscow for more than a decade. Previously, he was Moscow Correspondent for the Independent.

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In The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker provides a deeply reported, bottom-up explanation of Putin's aggressive foreign policy and his support among Russians.

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• List of Maps

• Maps of Soviet Union

• Map of Russia

• Prologue

• Part 1: Curating the Past

• Chapter One: A first-tier nation

• Chapter Two: The sacred war

• Chapter Three: Chechnya: the deal

• Chapter Four: Kolyma: the end of the earth

• Part 2: Curating the Present

• Chapter Five: The Olympic dream

• Chapter Six: Ukraine is not dead yet

• Chapter Seven: The Crimea gambit

• Chapter Eight: The Crimean Tatars

• Chapter Nine: Russian Crimea

• Part 3: The Past Becomes the Present

• Chapter Ten: Donbass: the spiral

• Chapter Eleven: War

• Part 4: The Past in the Future

• Chapter Twelve: After the war

• Epilogue

• Author's Note

• Acknowledgements

• Notes

• Bibliography