Short, Philip,   1945-  <br/><br/>
Putin / 
Philip Short. 
 - First US edition. 
 - x, 854 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 677-829) and index. 
<br/><br/> Prologue --  Baskov Lane --  Legal niceties --  The big house --  Quiet days in Saxony --  Back in the USSR  --  The grey cardinal --  The view from the Neva --  Moscow rules --  The cap of Monomakh --  Power vertical --  A bonfire of illusions --  The Russian idea --  Body politic --  Tandemocracy --  The straightjacket tightens --  Payback --  Nemtsov, wild boar sausages and the end of liberalism --  The endgame --  Afterword. 
<br/><br/> "The first comprehensive, fully up-to-date biography of Vladimir Putin, woven into the tumultuous saga of Russia over the last sixty years"--  "The first comprehensive, fully up-to-date biography of Vladimir Putin, woven into the tumultuous saga of Russia over the last sixty years ... drawing on almost two hundred interviews conducted over eight years in Russia, the United States, and Europe and on source material in more than a dozen languages."-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781627793667 (hardback) 1627793666 (hardback) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2022940166 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952- 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Presidents--Russia (Federation)--Biography.<br/>Presidentes--Rusia (Federación)--Biografías<br/>Political corruption--Russia (Federation)<br/>Corrupción política--Rusia (Federación)
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Russia (Federation)--Politics and government--1991-<br/>Rusia (Federación) --Política y gobierno--1991-<br/>Russia (Federation)--Foreign relations.<br/>Rusia (Federación)--Relaciones exteriores
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>338 DK 510.766   / P988S 2022