The Shadow of War

Taking the achievements, ambiguities, and legacies of World War IIas a point of departure, The Shadow of War: The Soviet Union andRussia, 1941 to the Present offers a fresh new approach tomodern Soviet and Russian history.

• Presents one of the only histories of the Soviet Union andRussia that begins with World War II and goes beyond the Sovietcollapse through to the early twenty-first century
• Innovative thematic arrangement and approach allows forinsights that are missed in chronological histories
• Draws on a wide range of sources and the very latest researchon post-Soviet history, a rapidly developing field
• Supported by further reading, bibliography, maps andillustrations.