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Vladimir Putin is a pariah to the West
Alone among world leaders he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm and has threatened to do so He invades his neighbours most recently Ukraine meddles in western elections and orders assassinations inside and outside Russia The regime he heads is autocratic and corrupt
Yet many Russians continue to support him Despite western sanctions the majority have been living better than at any time in the past By fair means or foul under Putins leadership Russia has once again become a force to be reckoned with
Philip Shorts magisterial biography explores in unprecedented depth the personality of its enigmatic and ruthless leader and demolishes many of our preconceptions about Putins Russia Since becoming President in 2000 his obsession has been to restore Russias status as a great power unbound by western rules What forces and experiences shaped him What led him to challenge the Americanled world order that has kept the peace since the end of the Cold War
To explain is not to justify Putins regime is dark He pursues his goals relentlessly by whatever means he thinks fit But on closer examination much of what we think we know about him turns out to rest on halftruths
This book is as close as we will come to understanding Russias ruler It also makes us revise longheld assumptions about the course of global politics since the end of the Cold War
Philip Short 2022 P Penguin Audio 2022
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