A bitingly funny satire on the world of Donald Trump, from the author of the Christmas bestseller Strayapedia. ... Miss Universe, fast food and of course Vladimir Putin, among other trending topics, Trumpedia is packed with ...
... a sharp decline in private investment and thus contributed to the long-term economic slowdown. One result of Putin's rule was the destruction of the emerging checks and balances system in Russia, and that would be a ...
... , historical and political analysis and in light of wider developments in Russian society. Richard Sakwa presents the Putin paradox as a unique regime type - balancing numerous contradictions - in order to adapt to its ...
... trying to expand them. He is doing whatever he can to advance Russian national interests as he interprets them. In Putin's mind, Russia can rise only as far as the West can fall. And on multiple fronts he is methodically ...
... , historical and political analysis and in light of wider developments in Russian society. Richard Sakwa presents the Putin paradox as a unique regime type - balancing numerous contradictions - in order to adapt to its ...
... their country's deeds, by personal hatred for the Tsar-like Putin, and by a vision of a better Russia, shorn of ... forces in hopes of hastening Russia's defeat and Putin's demise. Based on travels to exile communities in ...
... a hubris that shaped how the West would treat Russia for the next two decades. But history wasn't over. Putin is a paradox. In the early years of his presidency, he appeared to commit himself to friendship with the West ...
... in the context of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics of aggression: the enduring terror of encirclement by outsiders, the subjugation of the individual to the ...
... ? What does he want? And what will he do next? Despite the millions of words written on Putin's Russia, the West still fails to truly understand one of the world's most powerful politicians, whose influence spans the ...
... US election, and Russia's involvement with conflicts in Syria, Ukraine, and elsewhere across the globe. Putin speaks about his rise to power and details his relationships with Presidents Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama ...
... with an opt-out? And could the 'tu quoque' defence ('I did it, but you did it first') be raised at Putin's trial, as it was for Admiral D nitz at Nuremberg? This brilliant deep-dive into international law offers a unique ...
... its ties to China, Japan, the Middle East; and with its neighbors, particularly the fraught relationship with Ukraine. Putin's World will help Americans understand how and why the post-Cold War era has given way to a new ...
... an opt-out; and could the 'Tu Quoque' defence ('I did it, but you did it first') be raised at Putin's trial, as it was for Admiral Doenitz at Nuremberg? This brilliant deep-dive into international law offers a unique ...
... is not strong but desperately trying to create a space for itself in an increasingly globalized and competitive world, Putin's reign is based on very thin ice; he is highly dependent on a small handful of powerful men ...
... Ukraine, he would fight on the side of Ukraine. And that's what he is doing today. Opposing Putin is a risky proposition; for instance, a fellow Russian Parliament member turned dissident, Denis Voronenkov, was on his ...
... him out to be: 'He's essentially a gangster and not a particularly smart one. We need to demythologise Putin if we are to beat him.' Meanwhile Russian money and influence grows ever stronger as Western governments and ...
... world order that has kept the peace since the end of the Cold War? To explain is not to justify. Putin's regime is dark. He pursues his goals relentlessly by whatever means he thinks fit. But on closer examination, much ...
... as Russian-born U.S. intelligence expert Rebekah Koffler reveals. In her new book, Koffler details how Vladimir Putin is orchestrating a wide-ranging, multi-faceted campaign to retake his country's role as a super-power ...
... risked throwing the world into a devastating recession. The end goal was simple: to sap the strength of Putin’s war machine and damage the Russian economy—once the eleventh largest on the planet. Here, Russian expert ...
... the common assumptions made about contemporary Russia. Though commonly viewed as an ominous return to Soviet authoritarianism, Putin's rule should instead be seen as a direct continuation of Yeltsin's in the 1990s. And ...
... -style dictatorship, and the West, for its unqualified embrace of the Russian leader. Sounding an urgent alarm, Putin's Russia is a gripping portrayal of a country in crisis and the testament of a great and intrepid ...
... personnel. By examining siloviki behavior from the Kremlin down to the street level, State Building in Putin's Russia uncovers the who, where, and how of Russian state building after communism." Author: Brian D ...
... freed in a prisoner exchange and permitted to return home. In Putin's Prisoner , Aiden will tell the full, harrowing story of his time fighting in Putin's war, of his six months in Russian captivity, and of his ...
In Putin's Labyrinth, acclaimed journalist Steve LeVine, who lived in and reported from the former Soviet Union for ... and the country's real power, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, are posing a resolute challenge to the West. ...
... interaction of power, money and people in Russia during the presidencies of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev. Profiling Putin's team, including his security services and pro-market economic 'reformers', Simon Pirani ...
... interrelationship between the internal-external nexus and the politics of (in)security and regime-building in Putin's Russia. In so doing, it evaluates the way that this evolving relationship between state identities and ...
... construe a single, glorious historical narrative with the focus on Soviet victory over Nazi Germany. Putin's Russia and the Falsification of History examines the intricate networks in Russia that engage in "historymaking ...
There is little consensus about the nature of the political system that has emerged during the Putin presidency. This collection considers the issues arising in this connection, focusing more closely on institutions such ...
... and the Soviet collapse. Stephen Fortescue provides an overview of policy-making processes from Lenin and Putin, and Leslie Holmes updates the concept of goal-rational legitimacy. Author: S. Fortescue. Format: Paperback ...
... more than a few scholarly analyses. That's Not Funny argues that it is both an intellectual and politically strategic ... the "right-wing comedy complex." In That's Not Funny , "complex" takes on an important double meaning. ...
... more than a few scholarly analyses. That's Not Funny argues that it is both an intellectual and politically strategic ... the "right-wing comedy complex." In That's Not Funny , "complex" takes on an important double meaning. ...
... a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty first century. Funny Weather brings together a career's worth of Laing's writing about art and culture, examining its role ...
... eine Menge Spuren. Analyst Steven Broschart zeigt konkret, welche psychologischen und kommunikativen Mittel an Putins digitaler Frontlinie zum Einsatz kommen. Author: Steven Broschart. Format: Hardcover Non-Fiction Books ...
... , and station-house banter. A true look at what life is like behind the badge, the tales in "The Funniest Cop Stories Ever" were collected by real-life ex-New York City policeman Scott Baker and coauthor Tom Philbin ...
The Pussy Riot protest, and the subsequent heavy handed treatment of the protestors, grabbed the headlines, but this was not an isolated instance of art being noticeably critical of the regime. As this book, based on ...
In September 2009 Dmitrii Medvedev unveiled the term that was to become the defining objective of his presidency: 'modernization.' The contributors to this book, drawn from the leading scholars in Russian affairs, focus ...
An international collection of papers focused on media, culture and society in postcommunist Russia. Contributors deploy a wealth of primary data in examining the kinds of issues that are central to our understanding of ...
This book offers a novel interpretation of Russian contemporary discourse on Islam and its influence on Russian state policies. It shifts the analytical perspective from the discussion about Russia's Islam as a potential ...
... on Europe. In Killer in the Kremlin , award-winning journalist John Sweeney takes readers from the heart of Putin's Russia to the killing fields of Chechnya, to the embattled cities of an invaded Ukraine. In a disturbing ...
... acts of aggression in modern history - Russia's invasion of Ukraine - this book shines a light on Putin's rule and poses urgent questions about how the world must respond. About the Author John Sweeney is a writer ...
... society grew at a steady pace. As the West liberalized its stance on sexuality and gender, Putin's Russia moved in the opposite direction, remolding the performance of Russian citizenship according to a neoconservative ...
... Myers has worked at the New York Times for 22 years, five of them in Russia during the period when Putin consolidated his power. He spent two years as bureau chief in Baghdad, covering the winding down of the American ...
... Notice , Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he became Vladimir Putin's number one enemy by exposing Putin's campaign to steal and launder hundreds of billions of dollars and kill anyone ...
... thoughtful exploration of the legacy of the Soviet collapse and how it has affected life in Russia and Putin's policies. It shows that the legacy of the collapse is one with which Russia and Russians are still grappling ...
... 'soul' of the former KGB officer. When German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Sochi in 2007 to discuss energy policy, Putin had his black labrador Konni brought in. Merkel - who is terrified of dogs - dared not budge an ...
... regime and has spent the last half decade on a campaign to expose it. Because of that, he became Putin's number one enemy, especially after Browder succeeded in having a law passed in the United States-The Magnitsky Act ...
... to its steady infiltration of the governing elite. Based on extensive research and dozens of interviews with Putin's close advisers, this eye-opening account is essential reading to understand Russia's past century - and ...
... , vivid and powerful account of the largest armed conflict in Europe since 1945. Having warned correctly about Putin's dark and adventurist ambitions, his analysis of the war's consequences for Kyiv, Moscow and the world ...
... to conflict in Georgia, Crimea, the South Caucasus and Syria. He shows the central role war has played in Putin's rule and how it has helped craft a new social contract between president and people grounded in a shared ...
... the KGB, he has enriched his business friends from Saint Petersburg with preferential government deals. Thus, Putin has created a super wealthy and loyal plutocracy that owes its existence to authoritarianism. Much of ...
... Russia's foreign policy during the 2016 U.S. presidential election are also favored tools of Putin's domestic regime-along with internet restrictions, state television, and copious in-house surveys. While these tactics ...
... Idov recounts the tempestuous years he spent living alongside-and closely observing-the media and cultural elite of Putin's Russia. After accepting a surprise offer to become the editor in chief of GQ Russia , Idov and ...
... , small business, ethnic relations, and the ongoing Chechen war. Together, the two volumes simultaneously reveal that Putin's successes have been much more limited and ambiguous than is widely believed in the West while ...
... his prime minister, Dimitri Medvedev, only to return to presidential power for a third time in 2012. Putin's rule, whether as president or prime minister, has been marked by a steady increase in domestic repression and ...
... invasion was a matter the Russian army's 6-year planning cycle and would happen in 2021. They argue how Putin must be resisted in order to avoid a potential nuclear conflict that could drag the world into a global war ...
... invasion was a matter the Russian army's 6-year planning cycle and would happen in 2021. They argue how Putin must be resisted in order to avoid a potential nuclear conflict that could drag the world into a global war ...
... . But Russia hadn't reckoned on the Zelensky factor in Ukraine. Approaching the third year of conflict, President Putin is still struggling to overrun his determined neighbour. The cost of the conflict, both in human and ...
... Security Service, has regained the majority of the domestic security functions of the Soviet-era KGB. Under Vladimir Putin, who served as FSB director just before becoming president, the agency has grown to be one of the ...
... and of Russian policy on the international stage. Revealing the Russia beyond Moscow and the central figures around Putin, Edwin Bacon focuses on Russia's political present, not to ignore the past but to move beyond ...
... the turn of the last millennium, the era of the "end of history," the United States was confident that Putin's Russia and a newly wealthy China could gradually be pulled into the Western-led order. That proved a fantasy ...
... personnel and vast resources to undermining the U.S. diplomatic presence in Russia. But it was not until Vladimir Putin gave the order to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 25, 2022 that Sullivan had to ...
... . Understanding how the project of legitimating nationalism, in support of a unified country and specifically Putin's regime, works in practice offers crucial context in understanding the shape and story of contemporary ...
... a correspondent as the Soviet Union collapsed into chaos, to his frustrating work as a media consultant in Putin's Kremlin, this is a unique, fascinating and often hilarious insight into a country that today, more than ...
... between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has 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 ...
... to this day. His farcical posthumous show-trial brought Putin's regime to a new low in the eyes of the ... Soviet Union Moscow, to his expulsion from Russia on Putin's orders. Browder's graphic portrait of the Russian ...
... high-tech spying and multiple political feuds is told against the backdrop of Trump's strange relationship with Putin and the curious ties between members of his inner circle - including Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn - ...
... from 2012 to 2014, he had a front-row seat when this fleeting, hopeful moment crumbled with Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency. This riveting inside account combines history and memoir to tell the full story of U ...
... McSweeney's and is the author of the hit humour titles The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin: Life Coach . He lives in Finsbury Park with his wife Grace. Author: Rob Sears. Format: Hardcover Non-Fiction ...
... and computers, and hundreds of insider interviews, Blake bravely exposes how Russia's killing campaign fits into Putin's pursuit of global dominance - and why Western governments have failed time and again to stop the ...
... Along the way he gained notoriety as the 'Sheriff of Wall Street', was banned from Russia by Vladimir Putin and earned the distinction of being one of the first federal employees fired by Trump. In Doing Justice Bharara ...
... Russia? How does a new Cold War affect the safety and security of the United States? Does Vladimir Putin really want to destabilize the West? Now updated and expanded in a new second edition, War With Russia? answers ...
... was ushered in - creating a strange world scarcely believable when viewed from the era of Vladimir Putin. A fascinated witness of Russian politics, Kenneth MacInnes lived in the country through this unique and exciting ...
... of many Russians, who have invested too deeply in the Kremlin's alternative narratives to regard the war as Putin's foolhardy mission. In their eyes, this is Russia's war - against Ukraine, against the West, against evil ...
... reporters on international politics 'Essential and definitive' CATHERINE BELTON, author of PUTIN'S PEOPLE We are in a new era. From Trump, Putin and Bolsonaro to Erdogan, Xi and Modi, self-styled strongmen have become ...
... reported and masterfully told, The Apprentice is essential reading for anyone trying to understand Vladimir Putin's secret operation, its catastrophic impact, and the nature of betrayal. About the Author Greg Miller ...
... landmark examination of war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin's invasion of the Ukraine, and a penetrating analysis of what we must learn from the past and anticipate ...
... Britain's return to “blue water” diplomacy. Newly revised, this paperback edition features extended chapters on Putin's Russia and the future of British-Russian relations after the Russo-Ukrainian War. About the Author ...
... , food shortages played a critical role in the collapse of both the Russian Empire and the USSR. Under Putin's watch, Russia moved from heavily relying on grain imports to feed the population to being one of the world ...
... Ecological Foundation's Golden Phoenix lapel badge. He was asked to write two letters to Putin and was in contact with Putin's advisers. The phoenix rises from ashes, and Hagger considers whether the West is rising from ...
... dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR-and still provides a model of opposition in Putin's Russia Beginning in the 1960s, the Soviet Union was unexpectedly confronted by a dissident movement that captured ...
... from communism to democracy under Gorbachev and Yeltsin and back to authoritarianism under Yeltsin and Putin. Drawing on published and archival sources (including recently released papers) and interviews with current and ...
... 's plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adversaries - Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia - based on deep reporting. New Cold Wars - the latest from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist ...
... Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. He is the author of many books. In 2023 he was detained under Putin's regime for speaking out against the war in Ukraine, and in February 2024 he was sentenced to five years in ...
... this enigmatic figure, his role in the war with Ukraine, and the chaos unleashed across Russia by his turn against Putin? And, in the aftermath of his death, what is next for Russia in the new stage of late Putinism that ...
... quantitative research and literary analysis to shed light on Putin's background, outlook and current actions. Reflecting a range of perspectives on how Putin's background may have informed his beliefs and his actions ...
... quantitative research and literary analysis to shed light on Putin's background, outlook and current actions. Reflecting a range of perspectives on how Putin's background may have informed his beliefs and his actions ...
... policies, Washington and its European allies placed Russia in an untenable situation for which war seemed, to Mr. Putin and his military staff, the only workable solution. In How the West Brought War to Ukraine , author ...
... : the ability of its people to adapt themselves to difficult circumstances beyond their immediate control. Russia, as Putin has asserted, will not soon be a second edition of the United States or Britain. But, Colton ...
... turn and goes to Russia, where old tsarist and Soviet tropes are flooding the internet in support of Putin's neo-tsarism. A magical mystery tour that comes recommended. Iver B. Neumann, author of "Russia and the Idea ...
... of Crimea and the subsequent air campaign over Syria took the world by surprise. The capabilities and efficiency of Putin s armed forces during both operations signalled to the world that Russia was back in business as a ...
... of Crimea and the subsequent air campaign over Syria took the world by surprise. The capabilities and efficiency of Putin s armed forces during both operations signalled to the world that Russia was back in business as a ...
... book also provides new insights about the foundations of Vladimir Putin's regime and challenges several myths about the personalization of power under Putin. Author: Ora John Reuter. Format: Hardcover Non-Fiction Books ...
... The New York Times Book Review ), Marshall explains the complex geo-political strategies that shape the globe. Why is Putin so obsessed with Crimea? Why was the US destined to become a global superpower? Why does China's ...
A girl riding a bicycle in Saudi Arabia is more than simply a private activity. Vladimir Putin's Olympic Winter Games in Sochi shortly before the Crimean intervention proclaimed Russia's new values and the idea that only ...
... Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton; and, with his wife, Susan Glaser, Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of the Revolution. Author: Peter Baker. Format: Hardcover Non-Fiction Books Arts ...
... Riot collective. After 'Punk Prayer' - a Pussy Riot performance of the song 'Mother Mary, banish Putin' in Moscow Cathedral on 21 February 2012 she was convicted of 'hooliganism motivated by religious hatred', sentenced ...
... the present day, Plokhy shows how leaders from Ivan the Terrible to Joseph Stalin to Vladimir Putin have exploited existing forms of identity, warfare and territorial expansion to achieve imperial supremacy. A strikingly ...
... , nationalism, and other illiberal forces. Far-right parties are gaining traction in Europe, Vladimir Putin tightens his grip on Russia and undermines democracy abroad, and America struggles with poisonous threats from ...
... how governments and corporations have covered-up mass murder, corruption and catastrophe. In a world where Putin and Trump have successfully branded journalists as traffickers in fake news, while promoting the actual ...
... typical HCP behaviors. Drawing on historical examples from Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Nixon to Trump, Maduro, and Putin, Eddy shows how HCPs invent enemies and manufacture phony crises so they can portray themselves as the ...