The man without a face : the unlikely rise of Vladimir Putin
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New York, New York, USA : Riverhead Books, 2013.
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First Riverhead trade paperback edition.
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Published
New York, New York, USA : Riverhead Books, 2013.
Edition
First Riverhead trade paperback edition.
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329 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English

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"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 and wealth from the business class, and destroyed the fragile mechanisms of democracy. Within a few brief years, virtually every obstacle to his unbridled control was removed and every opposing voice silenced, with political rivals and critics driven into exile or to the grave"--Back cover.