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Articles by Karen Dawisha
Five books that help you understand Vladmir Putin
1. First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin By Vladimir Putin, Nataliya Gevorkyan, Natalya Timakova and Andrei Kolesnikov One has to start with an account by the man himself. This is a candid self portrait of the man who controls Russia’s destiny told through six interviews given by Putin to a trio of handpicked Russian journalists. Check out the book on Amazon here 2.
The Best Books To Understand Today’s Russia
Who am I? It’s all about the stories. Although I have been a professor, a think-tanker, and a secondee to the Foreign Office, by training I am a historian, so I love compelling, vivid, extraordinary stories, and for me, the best ones come from Russia.
PUTIN'S KLEPTOCRACY: Who Owns Russia ?
【 】 Russian society has had years of turbulence that produced decreased birth rates and increased mortality rates, especially among Russia’s men ... by 2012 the 1.7 births per Russian woman, although slightly higher than previously (thanks to numbers from non-Russian republics like Chechnya, Dagestan, and Tuva), was still 20 percent below replacement level. Birth rates are not that different from European norms, but statistics on mortality rates are striking.
Welcome to the Putinkin Village
By Oct. 2, 2016 5:40 pm ET Sitting astride a geographic colossus 11 time zones wide, Vladimir Putin is a lonely and increasingly absent leader in an ever-shrinking world. He speaks to fewer and fewer foreign counterparts—either because they don’t call or because he doesn’t care—and so his inner circle, the men of this czar’s court, have become indispensable. In the modern-day Kremlin, the old Russian proverb is inverted: God may be in heaven, but it is the people who are far away, not the czar.
Putin’s Press Propagandists
Russia today is ruled by the worst and least talented group of villains Russia has seen since before World War II. How did these men come to power? And how did the phenomenon of Putinisma come to pervade the psyche of the nation? In his bold new book, “The Invention of Russia,” Arkady Ostrovsky blames not just systemic pressures from above, but also the cumulative effects of generations of genetic depletion—the survival of the least fit.
The Putin Principle: How It Came to Rule Russia
In reacting to Russia’s annexation of Crimea and support for pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine in early 2014, the US government did not call the Sixth Fleet into action; it did not ban all exports to Russia; it did not stop all cultural and educational exchanges. Rather, key elites close to “a senior Russian government official”—President Vladimir Putin—were targeted with asset seizures and visa bans.
Opinion: Nemtsov killing: A chilling parallel?
In Moscow on February 27, 2015, a lone gunman killed Boris Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister and a powerful and charismatic opposition leader who stood as an alternative to Vladimir Putin. In Leningrad on December 1, 1934, a lone gunman killed Sergey Kirov, a powerful Bolshevik who stood as an alternative to Josef Stalin. Stalin's involvement in the murder was denied, and never proved. It goes without saying that the Kremlin also was quick to deny Putin's involvement in Nemtsov's death.
Book Review: ‘Red Notice’ by Bill Browder
There is no gulag in today’s Russia. There are no show trials. Except, that is, for the tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. Magnitsky was beaten to death in 2009 in prison, where he was being held on trumped-up charges for alleging that state officials had robbed Russian taxpayers of millions of dollars. He was then tried and convicted posthumously of tax fraud.
The Surreal Heart of the New Russia: Peter Pomerantsev: 9781610394550: Amazon.com: Books
As noted by other reviewers, the author is a very good story-teller and has included many entertaining and--to some extent--informative vignettes in this book.I have lived in Moscow for many years and have been to many of the places mentioned in the book--unlike some other works I've read about Moscow, this author's descriptions and insights about places and events generally ring true.
Putin's Kleptocracy
Putin’s Kleptocracy INTRODUCTIONIN REACTING to Russia’s annexation of Crimea and support for pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine in early 2014, the U.S. government announced an unprecedented response: not the Russian state but individual Russian citizens would be subjected to asset seizures and visa bans. The Sixth Fleet was not called into action; exports to Russia as a whole were not banned; cultural and educational exchanges were not stopped.
Seven staggering takeaways from our interview with the author who wrote the book on Putin’s kleptocracy
Recently we brought you Professor Karen Dawisha’s warning about Russian president Vladimir Putin’s growing paranoia, and the fact that in order to survive, he will likely be forced to increase repression.
Russia expert: Putin growing paranoid, can only keep peace by increasing repression, and primarily driven by physical survival
In a recent interview with Prof. Karen Dawisha, Director of Miami University of Ohio’s Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies and author of the new book “Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?,” Dawisha shared a message sure to chill Russians and freedom-lovers worldwide: Vladimir Putin is becoming more paranoid, “can only really keep peace by increasing the repression,” and perhaps most telling and potentially dangerous of all at his core is driven by one thing: physical survival.
Book Review: ‘Nothing is True and Everything is Possible’ by Peter Pomerantsev
The moneyed world of present-day Moscow is, according to Peter Pomerantsev, a lot like a reality TV show. There are state-of-the-art gyms, open-plan offices, skinny jeans, stilettos, wine bars, private jets and holidays abroad. It’s all a fragile performance: “It’s a simulacrum of the whole democratic thing. It feels almost real. But at the same time the other, real Russia rumbles on like a distant ringing in the ears,” Mr. Pomerantsev writes.
Bad-Mannered Russians in the West
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, an entirely new architecture was envisaged to incorporate Russia into Western institutions, from the Council of Europe to the World Trade Organization, from the High Courts of London to the New York Stock Exchange.
Russia Ukraine books
Freezing Order A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he became Vladimir Putin’s number one enemy by exposing Putin’s campaign to steal and launder hundreds of billions of dollars and kill anyone who stands in his way.
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