Putin’s Kleptocracy
by Karen Dawisha
Buy on AmazonThe raging question in the world today is who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions. Karen Dawisha's brilliant work provides an answer, describing how Putin got to power, the cabal he brought with him, the billions they have looted, and his plan to restore the Greater Russia.
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"The shambolic conditions of Russia in the 1990s laid the foundations for the Putin-era revanche at home and abroad. But the story outsiders saw, of poverty, political chaos and lurching economic reform was only part of the real picture. Karen Dawisha’s Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? explains what really happened: the sinister fusion of organised crime, intelligence, bureaucracy and business which took shape in St Petersburg in the early 1990s, and then moved to Moscow and took over the entire country. Dawisha’s book is so explosive that the original publisher, Cambridge University Press, decided it was too hot to handle."
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