TY - GEN ID - 19432504 TI - Petrostate : Putin, power, and the new Russia PY - 2008 SN - 0195340736 0195398637 9786611342319 1281342319 0199712573 9780195340730 9780195398632 PB - Oxford: Oxford university press, DB - UniCat KW - Energy policy KW - Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, KW - Russia (Federation) KW - Foreign relations KW - Foreign relations. KW - Energy policy - Russia (Federation) KW - Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, - 1952 KW - -Russia (Federation) - Foreign relations KW - -Russia (Federation) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:19432504 AB - 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 interviews with Vladimir Putin, this revealing book chronicles Russia's dramatic reemergence on the world stage, illuminating the key reason for its rebirth: the use of its ever-expanding energy wealth to reassert its traditional great power ambitions. In his deft, informative narrative, Marshall Goldman t ER -