Philip Short

Putin (eBook, ePUB)

The explosive and extraordinary new biography of Russia's leader

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'A perfect mirror to its subject... should be compulsory reading' Observer

Vladimir Putin is a pariah to the West.

He has the power to reduce the West to nuclear ashes. He invades his neighbours, meddles in western elections and orders assassinations. His regime is autocratic and corrupt. Yet many Russians continue to support him. Under Putin's leadership, Russia has once again become a force to be reckoned with.

Philip Short's magisterial biography explores in unprecedented depth the personality of Russia's leader and demolishes many of our preconceptions about Putin's Russia.

To explain is not to justify. Putin's regime is dark. But on closer examination, much of what we think we know about him turns out to rest on half-truths. This book is as close as we will come to understanding Russia's ruler.

'Short's pushback against lazy, convenient myth-making is refreshing' The Times

'Elegantly written and pacy' Financial Times

'Extensively covers the dark moments of Putin's career.... The Putin of Short's book is not someone you would invite to dinner' New York Times

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House
• Seitenzahl: 880
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781473521605
• Artikelnr.: 45325099

Autorenporträt

Philip Short

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Spelling and Pronunciation
Prologue
1 Baskov Lane
2 Legal Niceties
3 The Big House
4 Quiet Days in Saxony
5 Back in the USSR
6 The Grey Cardinal
7 The View from the Neva
8 Moscow Rules
9 The Cap of Monomakh
10 Power Vertical
11 A Bonfire of Illusions
12 The Russian Idea
13 Body Politic
14 Tandemocracy
15 The Straitjacket Tightens
16 Payback
17 Nemtsov, Wild Boar Sausages and the End of Liberalism
18 The Endgame
Afterword
Acknowledgements
Note on Sources
Interviews
Notes
Index

Rezensionen

Magisterial... based on access to a Who's Who of senior politicians, diplomats and intelligence sources. Guardian