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050			_bT142 2002
100	1		_aTalbott, Strobe _948457
245	1	4	_aThe Russia hand : _ba memoir of presidential diplomacy / _cStrobe Talbott
260			_aNew York : _bRandom House, _c2002
300			_a x, 478 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
520			_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
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