• In Moscow's Shadows 173: Personalistic Power under Putin

  • Nov 3 2024
  • Length: 50 mins
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In Moscow's Shadows 173: Personalistic Power under Putin

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  • I use reviews of three books to consider the risks and limitations of personalistic explanations of power under Putin, and whether a medieval concept of clan and family actually makes more sense...

    The books are:

    • THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN by GIULIANO DA EMPOLI (Pushkin Press)
    • THE KREMLIN’S NOOSE. PUTIN’S BITTER FEUD WITH THE OLIGARCH WHO MADE HIM RULER OF RUSSIA by AMY KNIGHT (Icon Books and Cornell UP)
    • THE RULING FAMILIES OF RUS. CLAN, FAMILY AND KINGDOM, by CHRISTIAN RAFFENSPERGER and DONALD OSTROWSKI (Reaktion Books)


    The Inozemtsev piece I mention is here, and my review of the play Patriots is here.

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