Mr. Putin, Fiona Hill
Mr. Putin, Fiona Hill
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Mr. Putin
Operative in the Kremlin

Author: Fiona Hill, Clifford G. Gaddy

Narrator: Ellen Archer

Unabridged: 17 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/18/2020

Synopsis

From the KGB to the Kremlin: a multidimensional portrait of the man at war with the West. Where do Vladimir Putin's ideas come from? How does he look at the outside world? What does he want, and how far is he willing to go?

The great lesson of the outbreak of World War I in 1914 was the danger of misreading the statements, actions, and intentions of the adversary. Today, Vladimir Putin has become the greatest challenge to European security and the global world order in decades. Russia's 8,000 nuclear weapons underscore the huge risks of not understanding who Putin is. Featuring five new chapters, this new edition dispels potentially dangerous misconceptions about Putin and offers a clear-eyed look at his objectives. It presents Putin as a reflection of deeply ingrained Russian ways of thinking as well as his unique personal background and experience.

About Fiona Hill

FIONA HILL is the Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution. From 2017 to 2019, she served as deputy assistant to the president and senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council. From 2006 to 2009, she served as national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council. She has researched and published extensively on issues related to Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, regional conflicts, energy, and strategic issues. Coauthor of Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin and The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold, she holds a master’s degree in Soviet studies and a doctorate in history from Harvard University and a master’s in Russian and modern history from St. Andrews University in Scotland. She also has pursued studies at Moscow’s Maurice Thorez Institute of Foreign Languages. Hill is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and lives in the Washington, DC, area.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chad on July 24, 2020

A certain kind of liar, when lying, will double down on enunciation, moving his or her mouth with extra vigor and precision for emphasis. Russian President Vladimir Putin lies regularly and frequently, usually adopting a particularly aggressive (or defensive) physical stance, whether standing or sit......more

Goodreads review by Cold War Conversations Podcast on January 25, 2015

An absorbing read that seeks to understand Putin despite the dearth of information available out there on him. Newly updated (to Nov 2014) Hill and Gaddy have put together a detailed book detailing how Putin’s ideology is formed directly from his life experiences. Whilst not unusual an interpretation......more

Goodreads review by Steven on September 23, 2022

As of today, Ukrainian forces have launched a successful counter-offensive against Russia in the northeastern part of the country and have liberated the key city of Izyum and have had success throughout the Kharkiv region. For the first time there may be rumblings in Moscow concerning how the war is......more

Goodreads review by Sebastian on May 14, 2022

4.2-4.5 stars. "Mr. Putin" is indeed a very good book. What did I like most? 1. This is not a traditional biography that depicts tons of meaningless facts in chronological order. The author has proposed some sort of a conceptual model ("dimensions" of Putin as a person) and then has dedicated a chapt......more

Goodreads review by Lubinka on March 16, 2022

That was one of the most clearly written and eye-opening books I've read about Russia and Putin. Although the author obviously has little sympathy towards Putin, the analysis of his background as an operative, of the forming of his modus operandi puts a lot of things in the right perspective and ena......more

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