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ivarv 's review for:
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
by Steven Lee Myers
If anything, Steven Lee Myers is able to lift the veil of obscurity surrounding Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. Elaborating in extreme detail his ancestry, background, rise within the KGB, personal affairs, and slow transition and imminent rise within the political realm. Myers also delves deep into how Putin changed the heavily privatized nation of Russia under Boris Jeltsin incrementally to a market reform and capitalist revolution, by means of appointing friends and contacts (oligarchs and bankers) of multi-billion corporations in crucial (governmental-)positions. All in all, Meyers succeeded greatly and in striking detail to depict and portray Putin, in all of its extremities.
Considering the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and especially the recent horrific war (or ‘demilitarizing intervention’, as Putin labels it) in Ukraine - if you want to grasp and understand even 1% of the corrupted, fixed and relentless mind of Putin and his loyal following, you will need to read this book.
Considering the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and especially the recent horrific war (or ‘demilitarizing intervention’, as Putin labels it) in Ukraine - if you want to grasp and understand even 1% of the corrupted, fixed and relentless mind of Putin and his loyal following, you will need to read this book.