A riveting account of Vladimir Putin's rule since his return to the Russian presidency in 2012.
Robert Service is a Fellow of the British Academy and of St Antony's College, Oxford. He has written several books, including the highly acclaimed Lenin: A Biography, Russia: Experiment with a People, Stalin: A Biography and Comrades: A History of World Communism, as well as many other books on Russia's past and present. Trotsky: A Biography was awarded the 2009 Duff Cooper Prize. Married with four children, he lives in London.
Robert Service, our pre-eminent Kremlinologist, does not offer a
lot of new gossip about Putin. He does not believe in demonising
the Russian leader. Rather, in a piece of superb analysis, he sets
out how Putin the man was swallowed up by the machine he
created.
*The Times*
The book has many qualities, not least in ambitious breadth,
covering domestic politics, foreign policy, economics and military
matters . . . makes for comprehensive introductory reading for
those new to the subject. And in the way of any good book, it will
be provocative for those already well versed in it.
*Literary Review*
Substantial, well-documented . . . One of our most accomplished,
erudite and prolific historians of modern Russia.
*New Statesman*
A masterful portrait of Putin and Russia
*Daily Telegraph*
[A] Nuanced account of Putin in power
*Financial Times*
Service is too good a historian to attempt to string Putin's
actions into a coherent strategy. Rather, he offers a portrait of a
leader cobbling together response to a series of crisis.
*Times Literary Supplement*
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