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Putin: The explosive and extraordinary new biography of Russia’s leader

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Jonathan Keeble

29 Hours 33 Minutes

Penguin Books LTD

June 2022

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Vladimir Putin is a pariah to the West.

Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm and has threatened to do so. He invades his neighbours, most recently Ukraine, meddles in western elections and orders assassinations inside and outside Russia. The regime he heads is autocratic and corrupt.

Yet many Russians continue to support him. Despite western sanctions, the majority have been living better than at any time in the past. By fair means or foul, under Putin's leadership, Russia has once again become a force to be reckoned with.

Philip Short's magisterial biography explores in unprecedented depth the personality of its enigmatic and ruthless leader and demolishes many of our preconceptions about Putin's Russia. Since becoming President in 2000, his obsession has been to restore Russia's status as a great power, unbound by western rules. What forces and experiences shaped him? What led him to challenge the American-led 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 of what we think we know about him turns out to rest on half-truths.

This book is as close as we will come to understanding Russia's ruler. It also makes us revise long-held assumptions about the course of global politics since the end of the Cold War.

© Philip Short 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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  • Stephen R.

    Thankfulness was my overwhelming reaction at the end of this. As and Australian predictably as it always does is involved is in US led wars. Putin is the villain and much of our media pour over us that narrative. Philip Short has written a great account that weaves complex threads of deep seated habits of mind embedded in the history and hearts of many participants. Putin is clearly a smart and complex leader in a challenging world. The US has its own multistranded world of pain with domestic and global tensions it wrestles with and Short is no hagiographer of the US. The history and context of post Soviet Union experience is laid out with relevant clarity. I found this account rich in detail and nuanced in its judgment and I am profoundly grateful to Philip Short for his careful research and writing. (I thought the Narrator was brilliant for such a sombre work.)

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