The man without a face the unlikely rise of Vladimir Putin

This is the chilling account of how a low-level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress and made his country once more a threat to her own people and to the world. Handpicked by the "family" surrounding an ailing...

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Main Author: Gessen, Masha
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Riverhead Books, 2013
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Table of Contents:
  • The accidental president
  • The election war
  • The autobiography of a thug
  • Once a spy
  • A coup and a crusade
  • The end of Sobchak
  • The day the media died
  • The dismantling of democracy
  • Rule of terror
  • Insatiable greed.