Putin and the return of history : how the Kremlin rekindled the Cold War / Martin Sixsmith with Daniel Sixsmith.
Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Continuum, ©2024Description: ix, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781399409865
- DK510.763 .S59 2024
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-343) and index.
Introduction -- Separate ways -- Not with a bang -- Zlost' -- Broken promises? -- NATO's final solution? -- The Great Patriot War; chosen glory and historical truth -- Versailles, Weimar, and Russophobia -- Shared past, divergent presents -- Memory wars -- Euromaiden and the president's fears of revolution -- Crimea and territorial memory -- Donbas-Kyiv and Moscow's problem child -- The Putin paradox and the hollow regime -- Holy war -- Countdown to conflict -- Resistance, denial, and disinformation -- A crisis of liberal democracy -- Conclusion.
An original and informative look at Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics.