Summary: Norma Clarke considers the third and final volume of Charles Moore’s biography of Margaret Thatcher; having spent the past twenty years reporting on Russia, Owen Matthews tries to put his finger on why Vladimir Putin may prove to be one of the most successful political leaders of our era Books The Code of Putinism by Brian Taylor Putin’s World: Russia against the West and with the rest by Angela Stent The Putin System: An opposing view by Grigory Yavlinsky Kremlin Winter: Russia and the second coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service The Return of the Russian Leviathan by Sergei Medvedev, translated by Stephen Dalziel We Need To Talk about Putin: How the West gets him wrong by Mark Galeotti Dealing with the Russians by Andrew Monaghan Putin v. the People: The perilous politics of a divided Russia by Samuel A. Greene and Graeme B. Robertson Russia’s Crony Capitalism: The path from market economy to kleptocracy by Anders Åslund <br><hr><p style="color: grey;">See <a style="color: grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
