Full name: The Strongman: Vladimir Putin and the Struggle for Russia

Author: Angus Roxburgh Year: 2011 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Politics, History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781780760162 9781780765044 1780760167 1780765045

Russia under Vladimir Putin has proved a prickly partner for the West, a far cry from the democratic ally many hoped for when the Soviet Union collapsed. Abroad, Putin has used Russia's energy strength as a foreign policy weapon, while at home he has cracked down on opponents, adamant that only he has the right vision for his country's future. Former BBC Moscow correspondent Angus Roxburgh charts the dramatic fight for Russia's future under Vladimir Putin?how the former KGB man changed from reformer to autocrat; how he sought the West's respect but earned its fear; how he cracked down on his rivals at home and burnished a flamboyant personality cult, one day saving snow leopards or horseback riding bare-chested, the next tongue-lashing Western audiences. Drawing on dozens of exclusive interviews in Russia, where he worked as a Kremlin insider advising Putin on press relations, Roxburgh also argues that the West threw away chances to bring Russia in from the cold by failing to understand its fears and aspirations following the collapse of communism. Similar books: The Man Without a Face by Masha Gessen Winter Is Coming by Garry Kasparov The New Tsar by Steven Lee Myers Putin's Kleptocracy by Karen Dawisha All the Kremlin's Men by Mikhail Zygar The Future Is History by Masha Gessen Kremlin Rising by Peter Baker Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev Red Notice by Bill Browder America the Beautiful by Ben Carson Fear by Bob Woodward Crisis of Character by Gary J. Byrne Clinton Cash by Peter Schweizer The Amateur by Edward Klein No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin Grant by Ron Chernow The Case for Trump by Victor Davis Hanson The Prime Ministers by Yehuda Avner East West Street by Philippe Sands Leadership by Doris Kearns Goodwin