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NewsmakersGaleotti, Mark
Summary: "Putin's Wars is a timely overview of the conflicts in which Russia has been involved since Vladimir Putin became prime minister and then president of Russia, from the First Chechen War to the two military incursions into Georgia, the annexation of Crimea and the eventual invasion of Ukraine itself. But it also looks more broadly at Putin's recreation of Russian military power and its expansion...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Osprey Publishing 2022
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Summary: Marvin Kalb, a former journalist and Harvard professor, traces how the Crimea of Catherine the Great became a global tinder box. The world was stunned when Vladimir Putin invaded and seized Crimea in March 2014. In the weeks that followed, pro-Russian rebels staged uprisings in southeastern Ukraine. The United States and its Western allies immediately imposed strict sanctions on Russia and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brookings Institution Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 KALShort, Philip
Summary: "The first comprehensive, fully up-to-date biography of Vladimir Putin, woven into the tumultuous saga of Russia over the last sixty years. Vladimir Putin is wreaking havoc in Europe, threatening global peace and stability and exposing his fellow citizens to devastating economic countermeasures. Yet puzzlingly many Russians continue to support him. This book is essential reading for anyone who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PUTIN, VLADIMIR VLASIMIROVICH SHOMatthews, Owen
Summary: "The Russo-Ukrainian War is the most serious geopolitical crisis since the Second World War--and yet at the heart of the conflict is a mystery. Vladimir Putin apparently lurched from a calculating, subtle master of opportunity to a reckless gambler, putting his regime--and Russia itself--at risk of destruction. Why? Drawing on over 25 years' experience as a correspondent in Moscow, as well as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mudlark 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.7086 MATSylvan, Lu
Summary: "Learn about Putin's early life, how he became one of Russia's strongest presidents, and what has made him so controversial in current politics."--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB PUTIN SYLKasparov, G. K. (Garri Kimovich)
Summary: The ascension of Vladimir Putin -- a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB -- to the presidency of Russia in 1999 was a strong signal that the country was headed away from democracy. Yet in the intervening years -- as America and the world's other leading powers have continued to appease him -- Putin has grown not only into a dictator but an international threat. With his vast resources and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.086 KASBlake, Heidi
Summary: "The untold story of how Russia refined the art and science of targeted assassination abroad-while Western spies watched in horror as their governments failed to guard against the threat. They thought they had found a safe haven in the green hills of England. They were wrong. One by one, the Russian oligarchs, dissidents, and gangsters who fled to Britain after Vladimir Putin came to power...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/ Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.47 BLAKnight, Amy W.
Summary: "'Western leaders should be aware that when they shake hands with Putin, they shake hands with a murderer.'--Leonid Martyniuk. In Russia, the twenty-first century belongs to Vladimir Putin. His political dominance has lasted two presidential terms, an appointment to prime minister, and a controversial election to a third presidential term. And like the violent tsars and Soviet revolutionaries...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.086 KNINance, Malcolm W
Summary: In the greatest intelligence operation in the history of the world, Donald Trump was made President of the United States with the assistance of a foreign power. For the first time, The Plot to Destroy Democracy reveals the dramatic story of how blackmail, espionage, assassination, and psychological warfare were used by Vladimir Putin and his spy agencies to steal the 2016 U.S. election--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324 NANSimpson, Glenn R.
Summary: Fusion GPS was founded in 2010 by Simpson and Fritsch, two former reporters at The Wall Street Journal, decided to use their reporting skills to conduct open-source investigations for businesses and law firms-- and opposition research for political candidates. In the fall of 2015 they were hired to look into the finances of Donald Trump. The deeper Fusion dug, the clearer it became that the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 SIMKhodorkovskiĭ, Mikhail
Summary: "An urgent analysis of the battle between Russia and the West and an exposé of Putin's Russia, by a former Kremlin insider. "I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get wound up about things. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Moscow Echo radio station and heard that the Kremlin had put a price on my head. The announcement didn't quite say 'dead or alive'. But it came...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.086 KHOWeiss, Andrew S.
Summary: "In the West's collective imagination, Vladimir Putin is a devious cartoon villain, constantly plotting and scheming to destroy his enemies around the globe and in Ukraine. But how did an undistinguished mid-level KGB officer become one of the most powerful leaders in Russian history? And how much of Putin's tough-guy persona is a calculated performance? In Accidental Czar, Andrew S. Weiss, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 PUTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 741.5 WEIZygarʹ, Mikhail
Summary: "Charting the transformation of Vladimir Putin from a passionate fan of the West and a liberal reformer into a hurt and introverted outcast, All the Kremlin's Men is a historical detective story, full of intrigue and conspiracy. This is the story of the political battles that have taken place in the court of Vladimir Putin since his rise to power, and a chronicle of friendship and hatred...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Pol ZygarOstrovsky, Arkady
Summary: "A highly original narrative history by The Economist’s Moscow bureau chief that does for modern Russia what Evan Osnos did for China in Age of Ambition,"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.086 OSTPolitkovskai͡a︡, Anna.
Contents: My country's army and its mothers -- Our new middle ages, or war criminals of all the Russias -- Tanya, Misha, Lena, and Rinat: where are they now? -- How to misappropriate property with the connivance of the government -- More stories from the provinces -- Nord-Ost: the latest tale of destruction -- Akaky Akakievich Putin II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.086 POLWeiner, Tim
Summary: "With vivid storytelling and access to insider accounts, Weiner sets out to trace the roots of Russian-American political warfare--conflict waged without weapons--over the last seven decades to understand how a president landed in the White House with thehelp of an expansive, covert Russian campaign. Russia's modern revival of Soviet-era intelligence operations constitutes one of the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 WEIIsikoff, Michael
Summary: Explains how Vladimir Putin and Russia hacked an American election as part of a covert operation to subvert the United States' democracy and help Donald Trump win the presidency.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 ISISakwa, Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.086 SAKMyers, Steven Lee
Summary: An epic tale of the path to power of Vladimir Putin, who emerged from obscurity to become one of the world's most conflicted and important leaders. Vladimir Putin rose out of Soviet deprivation to the pinnacle of influence in the new Russian nation. He came to office in 2000 as a reformer, cutting taxes and expanding property rights, bringing a measure of order and eventually prosperity to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015