The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin

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In this gripping narrative of Putin’s rise to power, Steven Lee Myers recounts Putin’s origins–from his childhood of abject poverty in Leningrad to his ascent throughout the ranks of the KGB, and his eventual consolidation of rule within the Kremlin. 

As the world struggles to confront a bolder Russia, the importance of figuring out the formidable and ambitious Vladimir Putin has never been greater. At the one hand, Putin’s many domestic reforms–from tax cuts to an expansion of property rights–have helped reshape the potential for millions of Russians whose only experience of democracy had been crime, poverty, and instability after the fall of the Soviet Union. At the other, Putin has ushered in a new authoritarianism–unyielding in its brutal repression of dissent and newly assertive politically and militarily in regions like Crimea and the Middle East. The New Tsar is a staggering achievement, a deeply researched and crucial biography of one of the crucial essential and destabilizing world leaders in up to date history, a man whose merciless rule has grow to be inextricably bound to Russia’s forseeable future.  

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