A nation must think before it acts.
Russia in Search of Itself, by James H. Billington (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004).
Russia: Experiment with a People from 1991 to the Present, by Robert Service (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003).
Vyzov Zapada i Otvet Rossii [The Challenge of the West and Russia’s Response], by Anatoly Utkin (Moscow: Algorithm, 2003).
Negativnaia Identichnost’: Stat’i 1997–2002 [Negative Identity: Essays, 1997–2002], by Lev Gudkov (Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2004).