The man without a face : the unlikely rise of Vladimir Putin /
"In 1999, the "Family" surrounding Boris Yeltsin went looking for a successor to the ailing and increasingly unpopular president. Vladimir Putin, with very little governmental or administrative experience--he'd been deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, and briefly, director of the sec...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, New York, USA :
Riverhead Books,
2013.
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| Edition: | First Riverhead trade paperback edition. |
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| Summary: | "In 1999, the "Family" surrounding Boris Yeltsin went looking for a successor to the ailing and increasingly unpopular president. Vladimir Putin, with very little governmental or administrative experience--he'd been deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, and briefly, director of the secret police--nevertheless seemed the perfect choice: a "faceless" creature whom Yeltsin and his cronies could mold in their own image. Russia and an infatuated West were determined to see in him the progressive leader of their dreams--even as Putin, with ruthless efficiency, dismantled the country's media, wrested control and wealth from the business class, and destroyed the fragile mechanisms of democracy. Within a few brief years, virtually every obstacle to his unbridled control was removed and every opposing voice silenced, with political rivals and critics driven into exile or to the grave"--Back cover. |
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| Physical Description: | 329 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-335) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781594486517 1594486514 |