Hello, I need to do a presentation on Post-Soviet Russia, and I was looking to see if there were any useful books that a historian could recommend.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/books/europe#wiki_russia
This only has The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia, which I can get at my library, but I was wondering if there were any other useful books to read.
Personally I'm a fan of Alena Ledeneva's explorations of Russian post-Soviet political systems but these are fairly specific works of political science. If you are interested in conceptual models of blat and sistema though then check out her Russia's Economy of Favours, How Russia Really Works and Can Russia Modernise?.