Russia Kaiden (East Shinsho)

[Machine Translation] Will Putin Catch Japan or Smile? It will soon be a quarter of a century since the collapse of the Soviet Union. With the end of the U.S.-Soviet confrontation (Cold War), which dominated postwar international political dynamics, the balance of power has drastically changed with the rise of the U.S. as the dominant power and the rise of China. Historically, the domination structure by the Communist Party and the secret police (former KGB), which was born of "naked political supremacy" that was willing to engage in intrigue, exile, assassination, and war, was linked to a complex toward the West and contempt toward the East. This is a book by a wise former diplomat who describes the whole picture of Russia, a superpower that has failed to modernize, neither in Asia nor Europe, and is separated from the elite and the masses.

プーチンは日本を釣るのか、微笑むか?ソ連邦が崩壊して間もなく四半世紀。戦後の国際政治力学を左右した米ソ対立(冷戦)終結により、米国の巨頭化、中国の台頭によって、そのパワーバランスは激変した。歴史的に見て、謀略、流刑、暗殺、戦争もいとわない「剥き出しの政治至上主義」が生む共産党・秘密警察(旧KGB)による支配構造が、西欧へのコンプレックス、東方への蔑視に連なる。エリートと大衆の隔絶、アジアでもヨーロッパでもない、近代化に乗り遅れた大国ロシアの全貌を、元外交官が渾身の筆で描く賢者の一冊!