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Author Myers, Steven Lee, author.

Title The new tsar : the rise and reign of Vladimir Putin / Steven Lee Myers.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 PUTIN    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY PUTIN    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  B PUTIN, VLADIMIR    Check Shelf
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 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIO PUTIN    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY PUTIN    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B PUTIN    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B PUTIN, VLADIMIR    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B PUTIN, VLADIMIR    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography  B PUTIN    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description x, 572 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-543) and index.
Contents Homo sovieticus ; A warm heart, a cool head, and clean hands ; The devoted officer of a dying empire ; Democracy faces a hungry winter -- The spies come in from the cold ; Mismanaged democracy ; An unexpected path to power ; Swimming in the same river twice ; Kompromat ; In the outhouse -- Becoming Portugal ; Putin's soul ; The gods slept on their heads ; Annus horribilis ; The orange contagion ; Kremlin, Inc. ; Poison ; The 2008 problem -- The regency ; Action man ; The return -- The restoration ; Alone on Olympus ; Putingrad ; Our Russia.
Summary "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 man with enormous ambition and few scruples. We see Putin, a former KGB agent, come to office in 2000 as a reformer, cutting taxes, expanding property rights, bringing a measure of order and eventual prosperity to millions whose only experience of democracy in the early years following the Soviet collapse was instability, poverty, and criminality. But Myers makes clear how Putin then orchestrated a new authoritarianism, consolidating power, reasserting the country's might, brutally crushing revolts, and swiftly dispatching dissenters, even as he retained-- and continues to retain-- the support of many. As the world struggles to confront a newly assertive Russia, the importance of understanding Putin has never been greater. This keenly insightful, riveting book provides an essential key to that understanding"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-
Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952- -- Political and social views.
Presidents -- Russia (Federation) -- Biography.
Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti -- Biography.
Political leadership -- Russia (Federation)
Power (Social sciences) -- Russia (Federation)
Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political.
HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century.
Political and social views.
Political leadership.
Politics and government.
Power (Social sciences)
Presidents.
Russia (Federation)
Chronological Term Since 1991
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biography.
ISBN 9780307961617 (hardcover)
0307961613 (hardcover)
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