Putins Kleptocracy, Karen Dawisha
Putins Kleptocracy, Karen Dawisha
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Putin's Kleptocracy
Who Owns Russia?

Author: Karen Dawisha

Narrator: Robert Petkoff

Unabridged: 14 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/30/2014


Synopsis

The raging question in the world today is who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions. Karen Dawisha’s brilliant Putin’s Kleptocracy provides an answer, describing how Putin got to power, the cabal he brought with him, the billions they have looted, and his plan to restore the Greater Russia.

Russian scholar Dawisha describes and exposes the origins of Putin’s kleptocratic regime. She presents extensive new evidence about the Putin circle’s use of public positions for personal gain even before Putin became president in 2000. She documents the establishment of Bank Rossiya, now sanctioned by the US; the rise of the Ozero cooperative, founded by Putin and others who are now subject to visa bans and asset freezes; the links between Putin, Petromed, and “Putin’s Palace” near Sochi; and the role of security officials from Putin’s KGB days in Leningrad and Dresden, many of whom have maintained their contacts with Russian organized crime.

Putin’s Kleptocracy is the result of years of research into the KGB and the various Russian crime syndicates. Dawisha’s sources include Stasi archives; Russian insiders; investigative journalists in the US, Britain, Germany, Finland, France, and Italy; and Western officials who served in Moscow. Russian journalists wrote part of this story when the Russian media was still free. “Many of them died for this story, and their work has largely been scrubbed from the Internet, and even from Russian libraries,” Dawisha says. “But some of that work remains.”

About Karen Dawisha

Karen Dawisha is the Walter E. Havighurst Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and the director of the University’s Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies. She has written five previous books, eight edited volumes, and numerous journal articles, and continues to do research and teaching in the areas of post-communist transitions and Russian politics.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Maru

Here is a picture of George Bush meeting Vladimir Putin. Take a look at that stupid grin on Bush’s face. A few moments before Bush, that subtle judge of human character, would have “…looked into his eyes…and got a sense of the soul…” of Pootie-Poot, and Bush liked what he saw. Could that be a small,......more

Goodreads review by Iglen

First, I have noticed that 3 people (at the moment of writing) gave this book 1 star, identically claiming that this book is not based on facts but pretty much work of fiction. It is coincidentally that this book is the ONLY book they have read. Also these reviewers did not reveal their names using......more

Goodreads review by Nik

The first part of the book of Karen Dawisha follows the rise of Putin from anonymous KGB agent, stationed in Germany, in Soviet times till his ascend as the Russian president with distinct authoritarian and hands-on rule of the country. To showcase that Putin basically promoted to the positions of p......more