Five priorities for a resurgent Russia

ONE hundred years after the Russian Revolution, the tsars and the USSR may be gone, but Russia itself is alive and well.

As Russia commemorates the 100th anniversary of the revolution, a major geopolitical event that shaped much of the 20th century, it is easy to imagine its citizens taking stock of what went right and what went wrong since the 1917 uprising. From our perspective, we see at least three enduring legacies from the past 100 years:

Yet even though the Soviet Union rose and fell during the past 100 years, Russia itself is doing well today. President Vladimir Putin - who has described the USSR's collapse as one of the world's greatest disasters - is using his country's sense of history and proud national identi…