Reporting on Russia

Reporting on Russia

Where once reporters’ books on Russia suffered rejection or were relegated to remainder shelves if published, detente, however brief, launched a flood of books about Russia by reporters. There is, obviously, a market for them. No resident correspondent in Moscow knows enough of how the Central Committee and the Politburo work to write with authority as a Kremlinologist, and to do so readably. The one exception is Le Monde’s correspondent Michel Tatu, whose brilliant Power in t...