Return of the cold warriors

Review of three new books about modern Russia in the 21st Century:

The New Cold War: How the Kremlin Menaces Both Russia and the West
by Edward Lucas
Bloomsbury £18.99, 352 pages

Collapse of an Empire: Lessons for Modern Russia
by Yegor Gaidar
Brookings Institution Press $29.95, 332 pages

Russia - Lost in Transition: The Yeltsin and Putin Legacies
by Lilia Shevtsova
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace $19.95, 388 pages