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In Moscow's Shadows 173: Personalistic Power under Putin

In Moscow's Shadows 173: Personalistic Power under Putin

Update: 2024-11-033
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I use reviews of three books to consider the risks and limitations of personalistic explanations of power under Putin, and whether a medieval concept of clan and family actually makes more sense...

The books are:

  • THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN by GIULIANO DA EMPOLI (Pushkin Press)
  •  THE KREMLIN’S NOOSE. PUTIN’S BITTER FEUD WITH THE OLIGARCH WHO MADE HIM RULER OF RUSSIA by AMY KNIGHT (Icon Books and Cornell UP)
  • THE RULING FAMILIES OF RUS. CLAN, FAMILY AND KINGDOM, by CHRISTIAN RAFFENSPERGER and DONALD OSTROWSKI (Reaktion Books)


The Inozemtsev piece I mention is here, and my review of the play Patriots is here.

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In Moscow's Shadows 173: Personalistic Power under Putin

In Moscow's Shadows 173: Personalistic Power under Putin

Mark Galeotti