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1) Putin
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Vladimir Putin is the world's most dangerous man. 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 neighbors, most recently Ukraine, meddles in western elections, and orders assassinations inside and outside Russia. His regime is autocratic and deeply corrupt. But that is only half the story. Unflinching, hard-hitting, and objective, Philip...
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Language
English
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Description
"Vladimir Putin has turned Russia from fledgling democracy into a police state, and in 2020 a constitutional change gave him the means to stay in power until 2036. In this acclaimed political biography, former BBC Moscow correspondent Angus Roxburgh charts the dramatic fight for Russia's future under Putin. Roxburgh shows how the former KGB man evolved from reformer to autocrat, how he sought the West's respect but earned its fear and contempt. Drawing...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Even after his death in April 2007, Boris Yeltsin remains the most controversial figure in recent Russian history. Although Mikhail Gorbachev presided over the decline of the Communist party and the withdrawal of Soviet control over eastern Europe, it was Yeltsin-Russia's first elected president-who buried the Soviet Union itself. Upon taking office, Yeltsin quickly embarked on a sweeping makeover of newly democratic Russia, beginning with a program...
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Series
Publisher
Focus Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Introduces readers to the political career of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Engaging infographics, thought-provoking discussion questions, and eye-catching photos give the reader an invaluable look into Russia and the office of its current leader." --
Publisher
Showtime
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Filmmaker Oliver Stone was granted unprecedented access to Russian President Vladimir Putin during more than a dozen interviews over two years, with no topic off-limits. This remarkable four-part documentary series provides an intimate insight into Putin's personal and professional lives, from his childhood under communism to his rise to power, his relations with four U.S. presidents and his surprising takes on U.S.-Russian relationships today."...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
A chilling and revelatory expose of the KGB's renaissance, Putin's rise to power, and how Russian black cash is subverting the world. In Putin's People, former Moscow correspondent and investigative journalist Catherine Belton reveals the untold story of how Vladimir Putin and his entourage of KGB men seized power in Russia and built a new league of oligarchs. Through exclusive interviews with key inside players, Belton tells how Putin's people conducted...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"Charts the controversial rise of Boris Yeltsin against a broad and richly textured account of Russia's movement out of the grip of the communist state toward free, democratic nationhood. He details Yeltsin's successes and bitter defeats in transforming every aspect of the soviet system he inherited"--Jacket.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Frontline investigates the accusations of criminality and corruption that have surrounded Vladimir Putin's reign in Russia. Tracing his career back over two decades, Putin's Way reveals how the accumulation of wealth and power has led to autocratic rule and the specter of a new Cold War." --
13) Vladimir Putin
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A look at the life and times of Vladimir Putin, from the slums of Leningrad to the Soviet secret police to president of the new Russia.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Written from the inside, this is the first full biography of the charismatic Russian leader and hero of the August coup attempt, and the driving force behind the creation of the new independent commonwealth. Few political leaders have so electrified the world in recent years as Boris Yeltsin, the first democratically elected leader in Russia's thousand-year history and the man upon whom all eyes were centered in August 1991, and then again in December....
Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Putin's willingness to use crushing violence against his supposed enemies--including even threats of nuclear strikes--makes him one of the most dangerous leaders in the world. Putin has steadily tightened his grip on power. He has ruled Russia with an iron fist for more than two decades"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press/Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"For reasons that are made clear in this book, Putin's Russia will collapse just as Imperial Russia did in 1917 and as Soviet Russia did in 1991. The only questions are when, how violently, and with how much peril for the world. The U.S. election complicates everything, including: Putin's next land grab; Exploitations of the Arctic; Cyber-espionage; Putin and China... and many more crucial topics. An essential read for everybody bewildered and dismayed...
