Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin - Rilegato

Judah, Ben

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ISBN 10: 0300181213 ISBN 13: 9780300181210

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2013

Riassunto

From Kaliningrad on the Baltic to the Russian Far East, journalist Ben Judah has travelled throughout Russia and the former Soviet republics, conducting extensive interviews with President Vladimir Putin’s friends, foes, and colleagues, government officials, business tycoons, mobsters, and ordinary Russian citizens. Fragile Empire is the fruit of Judah’s thorough research: a probing assessment of Putin’s rise to power and what it has meant for Russia and her people.Despite a propaganda program intent on maintaining the cliché of stability, Putin’s regime was suddenly confronted in December 2011 by a highly public protest movement that told a different side of the story. Judah argues that Putinism has brought economic growth to Russia but also weaker institutions, and this contradiction leads to instability. The author explores both Putin’s successes and his failed promises, taking into account the impact of a new middle class and a new generation, the Internet, social activism, and globalization on the president’s impending leadership crisis. Can Russia avoid the crisis of Putinism? Judah offers original and up-to-the-minute answers.

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Recensione:

'This is a rich and powerful book.' --Tony Brenton, Standpoint, 1st June 2013

'Having worked as a Reuters reporter, a think-tank analyst and a freelance journalist, Judah has the skills to prep the dirty ingredients of Russian politics and cook up a narrative feast.' --Oliver Bullough, Literary Review, 1st June 2013

'Judah's portrait of Putin's fragile empire is analytical, historically informed and wise. He shares his glancing impressions lavishly, and does not conceal his sadness and disgust.' --Rachel Polonsky, Evening Standard, 30th May 2013

'Ben Judah, a young freelance writer, paints a more journalistic - and more passionate - picture in 'Fragile Empire'. He shuttles to and fro across Russia's vast terrain, finding criminals, liars, fascists and crooked politicians, as well as the occasional saintly figure.' --The Economist, 9th May 2013

'Judah has travelled far and wide. He's talked to men and women in all walks of life ' and, what's more, he's listened. There's a real freshness and vividness to his reportage, a real conviction in his analysis of a society in which daily life is an endless round of disappointment and frustration.' --Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman, 18th May 2013

'A beautifully written and very lively study of Russia that argues that the political order created by Vladimir Putin is stagnating - undermined by corruption and a failure to modernise economically. Judah's reporting stretches from the Kremlin to Siberia and has a clear moral sense, without being preachy.' --Gideon Rachman, Financial Times, 29th June 2013

'Judah is an intrepid reporter and classy political scientist [...] His lively account of his remote adventures forms the most enjoyable part of Fragile Empire, and puts me in mind of Chekhov's famous 1890 journey to Sakhalin Island.' --Luke Harding, The Guardian, 27th June 2013

'Judah's portrait of Putin is devastating [...] the opposite of dry Kremlinology. Interviews with senior politicians, oligarchs' daughters, louts and petty criminals include revealing cameos, as when a politician throws down $30 to cover the $10 bill in a cafe -- just for show.' --George Walden, Bloomberg, 4th July 2013

'Judah is an intrepid reporter and classy political scientist [...] His lively account of his remote adventures forms the most enjoyable part of Fragile Empire, and puts me in mind of Chekhov's famous 1890 journey to Sakhalin Island.' --Luke Harding, The Guardian, 27th June 2013

L'autore:

Ben Judah is currently a visiting fellow at the European Stability Initiative. His work has been featured in theFinancial Times, the Economist, Prospect, Standpoint, and Foreign Policy.

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• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0300181213
• ISBN 13: 9780300181210
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 379