About the book
Fiona Hill and Clifford G. Gaddy argue that Vladimir Putin is a man of several complex identities, shaped both by deeply rooted Russian habits of thought and by his own background, from the KGB to the Kremlin. They set out to correct misconceptions about him that they regard as potentially dangerous and to give a clear view of what he wants and how far he will go. The authors frame the stakes with 1914, when the First World War began, a moment whose lesson they see as the danger of misreading an adversary, and with Russia's arsenal of 8,000 nuclear weapons. The expanded edition adds five new chapters.
Laura Galante, founder of Galante Strategies, called it the fullest psychological profile of Putin and singled out The Statist chapter as key to how Russia's 1990s experiment with liberal democracy became the country of today.
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Laura Galante (Founder/Galante Strategies)
This book offers the consummate psychological profile of the man in the Kremlin. By understanding what drives Putin — pay particular attention to “The Statist” chapter — we can unravel how the country’s chaotic flirtation with liberal democracy in the 1990s morphed into the Russia we know today.
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