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New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin | Steven Lee Myers
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As the world struggles to confront a bolder Russia, the importance of understanding the formidable and ambitious Vladimir Putin has never been greater. This gripping narrative of Putin's rise to power recounts Putin's origins--from his childhood of abject poverty in Leningrad to his ascent through the ranks of the KGB, and his eventual consolidation of rule in the Kremlin. On the one hand, Putin's many domestic reforms--from tax cuts to an expansion of property rights--have helped reshape the potential of millions of Russians whose only experience of democracy had been crime, poverty, and instability after the fall of the Soviet Union. On the other, Putin has ushered in a new authoritarianism--unyielding in its brutal repression of dissent and newly assertive politically and militarily in regions like Crimea and the Middle East. The New Tsar is a staggering achievement, a deeply researched and essential biography of one of the most important and destabilizing world leaders in recent history, a man whose merciless rule has become inextricably bound to Russia's forseeable future.
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New book, and the kind that you must take anywhere you go, even to the hairdresser‘s. I have always loved biographies and this one is sadly so relevant nowadays… I dream of the last page of this story being the end of the war and the end of the evil ambitions behind it. Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦💙

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