The new tsar : the rise and reign of Vladimir Putin / Steven Lee Myers.
Myers, Steven Lee.
2015
DK510.766.P87 M93 2015 (Mapit)
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Title The new tsar : the rise and reign of Vladimir Putin / Steven Lee Myers.
Author Myers, Steven Lee.
Edition First American edition.
ISBN 9780307961617 (hardcover)
0307961613 (hardcover)
9780307961624
Published New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Language English
Description x, 572 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Call Number DK510.766.P87 M93 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 947.086/2092 B
Summary "The epic tale of the rise to power of Russia's current president--of his emergence from shrouded obscurity and deprivation to become one of the most consequential and complicated leaders in modern history. Former New York Times Moscow bureau chief Steven Lee Myers has followed Vladimir Putin's path for many years, and gives us the fullest, most absorbing account we have of his rise to power. This gripping narrative elucidates a cool and calculating man with enormous ambition and few scruples. We see Putin, a former KGB agent, come to office in 2000 as a reformer, cutting taxes, expanding property rights, bringing a measure of order and eventual prosperity to millions whose only experience of democracy in the early years following the Soviet collapse was instability, poverty, and criminality. But Myers makes clear how Putin then orchestrated a new authoritarianism, consolidating power, reasserting the country's might, brutally crushing revolts, and swiftly dispatching dissenters, even as he retained--and continues to retain--the support of many. As the world struggles to confront a newly assertive Russia, the importance of understanding Putin has never been greater. This keenly insightful, riveting book provides an essential key to that understanding"-- Provided by publisher.
Note "A Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 535-543) and index.
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Part one. Homo sovieticus
A warm heart, a cool head and clean hands
The devoted officer of a dying empire
Democracy faces a hungry winter
Part two. The spies come in from the cold
Mismanaged democracy
An unexpected path to power
Swimming in the same river twice
Kompromat
In the outhouse
Part three. Becoming Portugal
Putin's soul
The gods slept on their heads
Annus horribilis
The orange contagion
Kremlin, inc.
Poison
The 2008 problem
Part four. The regency
Action man
The return
Part five. The restoration
Alone on Olympus
Putingrad
Our Russia.

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