Project Syndicate: Can Russia be great?
In economic resources, Russia’s $2.3 trillion GDP was 14 percent that of the U.S. at independence.

Project Syndicate: Can Russia be great?

Sep 9, 2010 at 06:38

Joseph S. Nye writes:

CAMBRIDGE – In the 1950’s, many Americans feared that the Soviet Union would surpass the United States as the world’s leading power. The Soviet Union had the world’s largest territory, the third largest population, and the second largest economy, and it produced more oil and gas than Saudi Arabia. Read the story here.