Putin / Philip Short.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Short, Philip, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-.

Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich.

Presidents--Russia (Federation)--Biography.

Presidents.

Russia (Federation)--Politics and government--1991-.

Russia (Federation).

Russia (Federation)--Foreign relations.

Political corruption--Russia (Federation).

Political corruption.

Politics and government.

International relations.

Diplomatic relations.

Genre:

Biography.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 854 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Edition:

First US edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Henry Holt and Company, [2022]

Summary:

"The first comprehensive, fully up-to-date biography of Vladimir Putin, woven into the tumultuous saga of Russia over the last sixty years"-- Provided by publisher

"The first comprehensive, fully up-to-date biography of Vladimir Putin, woven into the tumultuous saga of Russia over the last sixty years. Vladimir Putin is the world's most dangerous man. 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 neighbors, most recently Ukraine, meddles in western elections, and orders assassinations inside and outside Russia. His regime is autocratic and deeply corrupt. But that is only half the story. Unflinching, hard-hitting, and objective, Philip Short's biography gives us the whole tale, up to the present day. To the fullest extent anyone has yet been able, Short cracks open the strongman's thick carapace to reveal the man underneath those bare-chested horseback rides. In this deeply researched account, readers meet the Putin who slept in the same room as his parents until he was twenty-five years old, who backed out of his wedding right beforehand, and who learned English in order to be able to talk to George W. Bush. Vladimir Putin is wreaking havoc in Europe, threatening global peace and stability and exposing his fellow citizens to devastating economic countermeasures. Yet puzzlingly many Russians continue to support him. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the many facets of the man behind the mask that Putin wears on the world stage. Drawing on almost two hundred interviews conducted over eight years in Russia, the United States, and Europe and on source material in more than a dozen languages, Putin will be the last word for years to come"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Prologue

Baskov Lane

Legal niceties

The big house

Quiet days in Saxony

Back in the USSR

The grey cardinal

The view from the Neva

Moscow rules

The cap of Monomakh

Power vertical

A bonfire of illusions

The Russian idea

Body politic

Tandemocracy

The straightjacket tightens

Payback

Nemtsov, wild boar sausages and the end of liberalism

The endgame

Afterword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [677]-829) and index (pages [831]-854).

ISBN:

9781627793667

1627793666

OCLC:

1336716393