Man Without a Face The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

Name: Man Without a Face The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
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ISBN: 9781594486517

ISBN-10: 1594486514

ISBN-13: 9781594486517

Edition: N/A

Authors: Masha Gessen

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A chilling and unflinching portrait of one of the most fearsome figures in world politics. In 1999, the “Family” surrounding Boris Yeltsin went looking for a successor to the ailing and increasingly unpopular president. Vladimir Putin, with very little governmental or administrative experience—he’d been deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, and briefly, director of the secret police—nevertheless seemed the perfect choice: a “faceless” creature whom Yeltsin and his cronies could mold in their own image. Russia and an infatuated West were determined to see in him the progressive leader of their dreams—even as Putin, with ruthless efficiency, dismantled the country’s media, wrested control…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/5/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.05" wide x 8.98" long x 0.92" tall
Weight: 0.748