01292nam a22001937a 4500003000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020001800069020001500087040001800102041000900120050001400129100002000143245007700163260003700240300004600277520077500323BJBSDDR20260514153240.0ta260514s2002    nyu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780375507144  a0375507140  bspa cBJBSDDR  aeng   bT142 20021 aTalbott, Strobe14aThe Russia hand :ba memoir of presidential diplomacy / cStrobe Talbott  aNew York : bRandom House,c2002  a x, 478 pages : billustrations ; c25 cm  aIn the eight years Bill Clinton was president, as Russia lurched from crisis to crisis, each one more horrifying than the last, Clinton and his foreign-policy team found they faced no greater task than helping to keep Russia stable and at peace with herself and her neighbors. Strobe Talbott’s mesmerizing account of this struggle reveals what a close-run thing this was, and how much the relationship between George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin has been defined by the work of Bill Clinton. 
 
Written with a novelistic richness and energy, The Russia Hand is the first great book about war and peace in the post-Cold War world. It is also the one book anyone needs to understand Russia’s fateful transformation and future possibilities after ten years as a democracy