… brokering a consensus among various clans and interests, today’s Putin is increasingly …
immorality Putin has come to see as an increasing threat to Russia’s identity. As a result. Putin's …

… two of Putin’s historic advisers. Vladislav Surkov, considered by the press as Putin’s ‘Rasputin…
ambition to restore Russian military might by rooting it in the history of the Russian Empire. …

… Putin has come to see his role and Russia's destiny as great, unique, and inextricably
connected. Even if this is merely an empire of, and in, his mind -- … as Putin remains in the Kremlin. …

… of Putin's triumph as a politician and his failure to build a modern state. This book asks what
is wrong with Putin's … With this in mind, she saw this disruptive boy as a child who needed …

… perception that their empire was created in “a fit of absence of mind” may be exaggerated,
it is not an exaggeration to say that from its early beginnings the Russian empire has been …

… what he had in mind: ‘We … Putin’s assertion that Russia has the right to protect Russians
and Russianspeakers outside of Russia’s borders is an alarming development within Putin’s …

… President Putin brandishing a model of the Molnia spacecraft … To find adequate explanations
for these phenomena we need to describe the rise and fall of each Russian empire and …

… has been replaced in the minds of the elite and some … Empire, which was produced in 2008
on the eve of Putin's transfer of power to Dmitry Medvedev. In 2008, at the very end of Putin's …

This clear and focused text provides an introduction to imperial Russian and Soviet history
from the crowning of Mikhail Romanov in 1613 to Vladimir Putin’s new term. Through a …

… Some—here he definitely pointed an accusing finger at Putin’s entourage—believe that
empire can be created on the basis of a pure market economy and Western liberal political …