Russia in Search of Itself

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Russia in Search of Itself is written by James H. Billington and published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0801879760 (ISBN 10) and 9780801879760 (ISBN 13).

Billington describes the contentious discussion occurring all over Russia and across the political spectrum. He finds conflicts raging among individuals as much as between organized groups and finds a deep underlying tension between the Russians' attempts to legitimize their new, nominally democratic identity, and their efforts to craft a new version of their old authoritarian tradition. After showing how the problem of Russian identity was framed in the past, Billington asks whether Russians will now look more to the West for a place in the common European home, or to the East for a new, Eurasian identity.