Russia at the Barricades

by Victoria E. Bonnell, Ann Cooper, Gregory Freidin

What does the Congress do? How does it do it? Is the Congress up to the challenges ahead? This primer offers students an introduction to Congress and the role it plays in the US political system. It explores the different political natures of the House and Senate, and examines Congress's interaction with other branches of the Federal government.

392 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1993

Reviews

[Bruce Carlson · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you want to know about the events of August 19th, 1991 - this is THE book to get, it has everybody's accounts of what happened when 8 men decided to take over the Soviet Union and arrest Gorbachev. The problem is, it pretty much ends in 1991, so the rest of the story and the details that came out after that is not known. As such it can seem a praise of new democracy that perhaps didn't happen.