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Arkady Ostrovsky

Biography

Arkady Ostrovsky

Arkady Ostrovsky is a Russian-born journalist who has spent 15 years reporting from Moscow, first for the Financial Times and then as bureau chief for The Economist. He studied Russian theater history in Moscow and holds a Ph.D. in English literature from Cambridge University. His translation of Tom Stoppard’s trilogy The Coast of Utopia has been published and staged in Russia. Ostrovsky is a regular guest on the BBC, Sky News and NPR, where he comments on Russia and the former Soviet Union.

Arkady Ostrovsky

Books by Arkady Ostrovsky

The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
by Arkady Ostrovsky - History, Nonfiction

The end of communism and breakup of the Soviet Union was a time of euphoria around the world, but Russia today is violently anti-American and dangerously nationalistic. So how did we go from the promise of those heady days to the autocratic police state of Putin’s new Russia? THE INVENTION OF RUSSIA reaches back to the darkest days of the cold war to tell the story of the fight for the soul of a nation. Arkady Ostrovsky introduces us to the propagandists, oligarchs and fixers who have set Russia’s course since the collapse of the Soviet Union.