In this Long View conversation, Maria Lipman and Michael Kimmage will interview the authors of two related books, Perfect Storm by Thane Gustafson, of Georgetown University, and Zero Sum by Charles Hecker, an expert on business and geopolitics. Both books are histories of Western business in post-Soviet Russia; both are histories of Russia in the 1990s; and both books help to explain Russia’s arc of development from a country importing a new economic model to the country Russian President Vladimir Putin rules today.