Full name: Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin

Author: Ben Judah Year: 2013 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Politics, History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780300181210 9780300205220 0300181213 0300205228

From Kaliningrad on the Baltic to the Russian Far East, journalist Ben Judah has travelled throughout Russia and the former Soviet republics, conducting extensive interviews with President Vladimir Putin's friends, foes, and colleagues, government officials, business tycoons, mobsters, and ordinary Russian citizens. Fragile Empire is the fruit of Judah's thorough research: a probing assessment of Putin's rise to power and what it has meant for Russia and her people. Despite a propaganda program intent on maintaining the cliche of stability, Putin's regime was suddenly confronted in December 2011 by a highly public protest movement that told a different side of the story. Judah argues that Putinism has brought economic growth to Russia but also weaker institutions, and this contradiction leads to instability. The author explores both Putin's successes and his failed promises, taking into account the impact of a new middle class and a new generation, the Internet, social activism, and globalization on the president's impending leadership crisis. Can Russia avoid the crisis of Putinism? Judah offers original and up-to-the-minute answers. Similar books: Putin's Kleptocracy by Karen Dawisha Kremlin Rising by Peter Baker All the Kremlin's Men by Mikhail Zygar Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya The New Tsar by Steven Lee Myers The Oligarchs by David E. Hoffman Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev The Man Without a Face by Masha Gessen Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff America by Dinesh D'Souza Unfreedom of the Press by Mark R. Levin One Nation by Ben Carson A Warning by Anonymous American Nations by Colin Woodard Justice on Trial by Mollie Hemingway Control by Glenn Beck Hillary's America by Dinesh D'Souza Licensed to Lie by Sidney Powell Front Row at the Trump Show by Jonathan Karl