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'Magisterial' - Guardian

'Outstanding' - Ian Kershaw

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.

 
 

Review

Exhaustively researched... as a chronicle of Putin's public doings, the book is near faultless... [with] some sharply worded insights - The Times

Magisterial... based on access to a Who's Who of senior politicians, diplomats and intelligence sources. - Guardian

A valuable piece of work... there are a number of fascinating insights into Putin that can be mined from the massive array of facts on offer - Daily Telegraph

[A] meticulous biography... this book [is] a perfect mirror to its subject - Observer

masterly portrait of one of the most calculating and impenetrable individuals on the world stage - Irish Independent

About the Author

Philip Short has written authoritative biographies including Mao: A Life and Pol Pot: History of a Nightmare, following a long career as a foreign correspondent for the BBC in Moscow, Washington and other world capitals.

He spent eight years researching and writing this book, working mainly from sources within Russia, but also in Britain, France, the United States and a dozen other countries.

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  • ISBN: 9781847923387
  • Author: Philip Short
  • Publisher: Bodley Head
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'Magisterial' - Guardian

'Outstanding' - Ian Kershaw

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.

 
 

Review

Exhaustively researched... as a chronicle of Putin's public doings, the book is near faultless... [with] some sharply worded insights - The Times

Magisterial... based on access to a Who's Who of senior politicians, diplomats and intelligence sources. - Guardian

A valuable piece of work... there are a number of fascinating insights into Putin that can be mined from the massive array of facts on offer - Daily Telegraph

[A] meticulous biography... this book [is] a perfect mirror to its subject - Observer

masterly portrait of one of the most calculating and impenetrable individuals on the world stage - Irish Independent

About the Author

Philip Short has written authoritative biographies including Mao: A Life and Pol Pot: History of a Nightmare, following a long career as a foreign correspondent for the BBC in Moscow, Washington and other world capitals.

He spent eight years researching and writing this book, working mainly from sources within Russia, but also in Britain, France, the United States and a dozen other countries.

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