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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015
Description
This title provides an epic tale of the path to power of Vladimir Putin, who emerged from obscurity to become one of the world's most conflicted and important leaders. Steven Lee Myers follows Putin's path in a gripping, page-turning narrative about Russian power and prestige, elucidating the cool and calculating leader whose ambitions are as great as Peter's, his means as ruthless as Ivan the Terrible's.
Author
Publisher
Granta
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Since coming to power in 1999, Vladimir Putin has ruthlessly seized control of media, exiled or killed political rivals, and dismantled Russia's fragile electoral system. Masha Gessen courageously returned to Moscow to report on Putin's alarming ascent, tracking down sources who dared speak to no one else.
Author
Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Former BBC Moscow correspondent Angus Roxburgh charts the dramatic fight for Russia's future under Vladimir Putin. He argues that the West threw away chances to bring Russia in from the cold by failing to understand its fears and aspirations following the collapse of communism.
Author
Publisher
Harvill
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Award-winning journalist Anna Politkovskaya presents a critical appraisal of the premiership of Vladimir Putin and of Russia under his presidency, covering such topics as corruption in the military and judiciary, as well as the story behind the infamous Moscow theatre siege.
Author
Publisher
Harvill Secker
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Until her murder in October 2006, Anna Politkovskaya wrote for the Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta. She won international fame for her reporting on the Chechen wars and, more generally, on Russian state corruption. 'Nothing But the Truth' collects Politkovskaya's best writing for Novaya gazeta, published between 1999 and 2006.
Author
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Pub. Date
2024
Description
They call him the Wizard of the Kremlin. Working at the heart of Russian power, the enigmatic Vadim Baranov-Putin's chief spin doctor has used his background in experimental theatre and reality TV to turn the entire country into an avant-garde political stage. Here truth and lies, news and propaganda, have become indistinguishable. But Vadim is growing increasingly entangled in the dark secret workings of the regime he has helped build, and now he...
Author
Publisher
Oneworld
Pub. Date
2010
Description
A tale of intrigue, corruption, greed, patronage, nepotism, and oligarchy as Russian oil and gas drive its economy and reignite its traditional great power ambitions. Based on extensive research, this is the story of one country's unprecedented, meteoric return to the world stage.
Author
Publisher
Gibson Square
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Based on Litvinenko's 20 years of insider's knowledge of Russian spy campaigns, 'Blowing up Russia' describes how the successor of the KGB fabricated terrorist attacks and launched war to have the unknown Putin - Litvinenko's former superior at the Russian secret service - elected with a landslide victory.
Author
Publisher
WH Allen
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Offering an urgent analysis of what has gone wrong with Putin, 'The Russia Conundrum' maps the country's rise and fall against Khodorkovsky's own journey, from Soviet youth to international oil executive, powerful insider to political dissident, and now a high-profile voice seeking to reconcile East and West. With unparalleled insight, written with Martin Sixsmith, the book exposes the desires and damning truths of Putin's Russia, and provides an...
14) The new Russia
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Publisher
Polity Press
Pub. Date
2016
Description
After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has ever been in the past 25 years. Putin's motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, remain for many a mystery. Not for Mikhail Gorbachev.
Author
Publisher
The Bodley Head
Pub. Date
2022
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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...
Author
Publisher
William Collins
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year 2020A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 2020`The Putin book that we've been waiting for' Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland`Books about modern Russia abound . Belton has surpassed them all. Her much-awaited book is the best and most important on modern Russia' The TimesA chilling and revelatory expose of the KGB's renaissance, Putin's rise to power, and how Russian black cash is...
Author
Publisher
Headline Press
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Beginning with the mystery of Alexei Navalny's murder in the Arctic Wolf penal colony in a remote part of Siberia, the book tells the life story of the Russian opposition leader who was a perpetual thorn in the side of Vladimir Putin. It is a warts-and-all biography of Navalny, a highly charismatic but controversial figure who flirted with far-right Russian nationalists at one point, told by a larger-than-life journalist, based in London and Kyiv,...
Author
Publisher
Allen Lane
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
In the autumn of 2015, the founders of the US political research firm Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, were hired by a Republican presidential candidate to look into the records of Donald Trump. What began as a march through a mind-boggling trove of lawsuits and sketchy overseas projects soon took a darker turn, as they became the first to uncover Trump's disturbing ties to the Kremlin and the crimes that since have plagued his presidency....
Author
Publisher
William Collins
Pub. Date
2018
Description
By Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Greg Miller comes an exclusive book uncovering the truth behind the Kremlin's attempt to destroy Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump win the presidency, Trump's steadfast allegiance to Vladimir Putin and Robert Mueller's ensuing investigation of the president and those close to him. It has been called the political crime of the century: a foreign government, led by a brutal authoritarian leader,...