Putin and the Return of History How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War 1st Edition by Martin Sixsmith, Daniel Sixsmith ISBN 9781399409902 1399409905
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ISBN 10: 1399409905
ISBN 13: 9781399409902
Author: Martin Sixsmith, Daniel Sixsmith
An original history of Russia’s thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin’s politics and rekindled the Cold War.
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet communism, the West convinced itself that liberal democracy would henceforth be the dominant, ultimately unique, system of governance – a hubris that shaped how the West would treat Russia for the next two decades. But history wasn’t over.
Putin is a paradox. In the early years of his presidency, he appeared to commit himself to friendship with the West, suggesting that Russia could join the European Union or even NATO. He said he supported free-market democracy and civil rights. But the Putin of those years is unrecognisable today. The Putin of the 2020s is an autocratic nationalist, dedicated to repression at home and anti-Western militarism abroad. So, what happened? Was he lying when he proclaimed his support for freedom, democracy and friendship with the West? Or, was he sincere? Did he change his views at some stage between then and now? And if that is the case, what happened to change him?
Putin and the Return of History examines these questions in the context of Russia’s thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin’s politics of aggression: the enduring terror of encirclement by outsiders, the subjugation of the individual to the cause of the state, the collectivist values that allow the sacrifice of human lives in battle, the willingness to lie and deceive, the co-opting of religion and the belief in Great Russia’s mission to change the world.
Table of contents:
1 Separate Ways
2 Not With a Bang
3 Anger
4 Broken Promises?
5 NATO’S Final Solution?
6 The Great Patriotic War; Chosen Glory and Historical Truth
7 Versailles, Weimar, Russophobia
8 Shared Past, Divergent Presents
9 Memory Wars
10 Euromaidan and the President’s Fear of Revolution
11 Crimea and Territorial Memory
12 Donbas – Kyiv and Moscow’s Problem Child
13 The Putin Paradox and the Hollow Regime
14 Holy War
15 Countdown to Conflict
16 Resistance, Denial, Disinformation
17 A Crisis of Liberal Democracy
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