From the December 2017 Issue Forces in a Vacuum Lost Kingdom: A History of Russian Nationalism from Ivan the Great to Vladimir Putin By Serhii Plokhy The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia By Masha Gessen LR
From the April 2012 Issue Vlad the Enforcer The Strongman: Vladimir Putin and the Struggle for Russia By Angus Roxburgh The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin By Masha Gessen LR
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