ALEXEY NIKOLSKY/AFP/Getty Images Confidence man: Vladimir Putin's legitimacy is based on the myth that he has delivered stability and economic growth.
For almost a century, American conventional wisdom on Russia has been consistently, and sometimes catastrophically, wrong.
You can look back to as far as 1920, when Walter Lippmann and Charles Merz of The New Republic picked through the New York Times' coverage of the Russian...
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