What's the Book About?
Shawn Miller of Critical Compendium had a slew of questions about The Oil and the Glory. Here is his interview.Labels: Azerbaijan, Baku, Caspian, Kazakhstan, oil and the glory, oil book, Putin, Russia, steve levine
Steve LeVine covers foreign affairs for BusinessWeek. He previously was correspondent for Central Asia and the Caucasus for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times for 11 years. His first book, The Oil and the Glory, a history of the former Soviet Union through the lens of oil, was published in October 2007. Putin’s Labyrinth, his new book, profiles Russia through the lives and deaths of six Russians. It was released this week.
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Shawn Miller of Critical Compendium had a slew of questions about The Oil and the Glory. Here is his interview.
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Praise for Putin's Labyrinth:
If Steve LeVine's aim … was to chill us to the marrow about post-Communist Russia, he has succeeded.
LeVine's reconstruction of a savagely botched anti-terrorist operation at a Moscow theatre is particularly effective.
With fresh insights into the Chechen wars and Putin’s post-presidency plans, LeVine’s important take on the all-too-real machinations and bloodthirstiness from which espionage thrillers are made is both unnerving and intriguing.
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2 Comments:
Steve,
An informative interview. Is 'Putin's Labyrinth" going to be as prescriptive as Edward Lucas' "The New Cold War?" Or is it going to focus on the analysis side of the things?
Hi Viktor. Labyrinth, like O and G, is a people-driven narrative. There is commentary as we move along, and I hope that by the end readers have a pretty good picture of the country and its leadership. Best Steve
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