A review by barleymilktea
Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin by Clifford G. Gaddy, Fiona Hill

5.0

I'm not at all knowledgeable about European politics, history, or economies. I can't say I absorbed all of this, but I appreciate its effort to contextualize what is happening in Russia under Putin today, and the reporting and opinions I am reading. While I can't say I grasped it all, at least now I have some background, which is more than I could say before. I will be re-reading the last couple of sections on Putin's ideas about the relationship between Russia and Ukraine, and his 2014 attempt to take Ukraine, which seems particularly relevant to the current war.