The Russia Conundrum

How the West Fell For Putin's Power Gambit - and How to Fix It

The Russia Conundrum
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Martin Sixsmith
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Hardback
h240 x 162mm - 352pg
8 Sep 2022 UK
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9780753559239
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An urgent analysis of the battle between Russia and the West, by former Kremlin insider and now vocal Putin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky. ' I' m a fairly calm fellow; I don' t usually get het up about things. But I was, let' s say, concerned when I tuned into the Voice of Russia Radio and heard that the Kremlin had put a price on my head. The announcement didn' t quite say ' dead or alive' . But it came close. . . ' Mikhail Khodorkovsky, April 2021Mikhail Khodorkovsky has seen behind the mask of Vladimir Putin. Once an oil tycoon and the richest man in Russia, Khodorkovsky spoke out against the corruption of Putin' s regime - and was punished by the Kremlin, stripped of his entire wealth and jailed for over ten years. Now freed, working as a pro-democracy campaigner in London, Khodorkovsky brings us the insider' s battle to save his country' s soul. Offering an urgent analysis of what has gone wrong with Putin, The Russia Conundrum maps the country' s rise and fall against Khodorkovsky' s own journey, from Soviet youth to oligarch, powerful insider to political dissident, and now a high-profile voice seeking to reconcile East and West. With unparalleled insight, written with Sunday Times bestselling author Martin Sixsmith, The Russia Conundrum exposes the desires and damning truths of Putin' s Russia, and provides an answer to the West on how it must challenge the Kremlin - in order to pave the way for a better future.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky (Author) In the early 2000s, Mikhail Khodorkovsky was the wealthiest man in Russia, the head of the giant Yukos oil company, ranked 16th on Forbes list of world billionaires. But his pro-democracy, anti-corruption views led to a clash with President Vladimir Putin, who had him arrested in 2003. Convicted on politically motivated fraud charges, Khodorkovsky spent ten years in Putin' s prison camps, recognised by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience. Since his release in December 2013, Mikhail Khodorkovsky has lived in Switzerland and in the UK. He now leads the philanthropic Open Russia organisation, promoting political reform in Russia, including free and fair elections, the protection of journalists and activists, the rule of law and media independence. He has been described by The Economist as ' the Kremlin' s leading critic-in-exile. ' Martin Sixsmith (Author) Martin Sixsmith studied at Oxford, Harvard and the Sorbonne. From 1980 to 1997 he was the BBC correspondent in Moscow, Washington, Brussels and Warsaw. From 1997 to 2002 he worked for the Government as Director of Communications and Press Secretary to Harriet Harman, Alistair Darling and Stephen Byers. He is now a writer, presenter and journalist. He has written two novels, Spin and I Heard Lenin Laugh, and is the author of three non-fiction titles - Moscow Coup- The Death of the Soviet System, The Litvinenko File- The True Story of a Death Foretold and The Lost Child of Philomena Lee- A Mother, Her Son and a Fifty Year Search.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780753559239
Published: 8 Sep 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: W H Allen
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Format: Hardback
Height: 240mm
Width: 162mm
Spine: 33mm
Weight: 573g
Pages: 352

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