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Winter is coming : why Vladimir Putin and the enemies of the free world must be stopped / Garry Kasparov ; with Mig Greengard.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : PublicAffairs, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Edition: First editionDescription: xxviii, 291 p. ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781610396202 (hbk.)
  • 1610396200 (hbk.)
  • 9781610396455 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Why Vladimir Putin and the enemies of the free world must be stopped
Uniform titles:
  • why Vladimir Putin and the enemies of the free world must be stopped /
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 947.0862092 23 KAS
LOC classification:
  • DK510.766.P87 K38 2015
Contents:
The end of the Cold War and the fall of the USSR -- The lost decade -- The invisible wars -- Born in blood -- President for life -- The search for Putin's soul -- Off the board, into the fire -- Operation Medvedev -- The audacity of false hope -- War and appeasement.
Scope and content: "The stunning story of Russia's slide back into a dictatorship--and how the West is now paying the price for allowing it to happen"--Front flap.Scope and content: The ascension of Putin to the presidency of Russia in 1999 was a strong signal that the country was headed away from democracy. Now, with his vast resources and nuclear arsenal, Putin is at the center of a worldwide assault on political liberty and the modern world order. Kasparov shows that the collapse of the Soviet Union was not an endpoint, and reveals Putin as an existential danger hiding in plain sight--Publisher description.
Item type: Book
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-276) and index.

The end of the Cold War and the fall of the USSR -- The lost decade -- The invisible wars -- Born in blood -- President for life -- The search for Putin's soul -- Off the board, into the fire -- Operation Medvedev -- The audacity of false hope -- War and appeasement.

"The stunning story of Russia's slide back into a dictatorship--and how the West is now paying the price for allowing it to happen"--Front flap.

The ascension of Putin to the presidency of Russia in 1999 was a strong signal that the country was headed away from democracy. Now, with his vast resources and nuclear arsenal, Putin is at the center of a worldwide assault on political liberty and the modern world order. Kasparov shows that the collapse of the Soviet Union was not an endpoint, and reveals Putin as an existential danger hiding in plain sight--Publisher description.

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