Robert Service reaches a damning verdict at odds with his earlier support for Boris Yeltsin in his history of the catastrophe that engulfed Russia in the 1990s

Russia: Experiment with a People
by Robert Service
414pp, Macmillan, £20

Robert Service has written an informative and necessary book on the catastrophe that overtook Russia in the 1990s. It is a tribute to the author that he reaches conclusions at odds with his own earlier support for Boris Yeltsin, who ruled the country in these ye...