Biography & Autobiography Presidents & Heads Of State
Putin's Death Grip
How Vladimir Putin's desperate hold on power is fueling the next revolution
- Publisher
- Rogers Publishing Limited
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2013
- Category
- Presidents & Heads of State
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780888966759
- Publish Date
- Aug 2013
- List Price
- $2.99
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Description
Vladimir Putin has been promising glory to Russia for a dozen years. For a long time, the country bought it. Now the increasingly defiant strongman finds himself battling a restive nation. Maclean’s Michael Petrou travelled through Russia talking to senior officials, political opponents and angry workers, and found the leader’s death grip on power may be fuelling the next revolution.
About the authors
Michael Petrou, an award-winning senior writer at Maclean's, has covered wars and conflicts across Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. He is the author of Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War, and holds a doctorate in modern history from the University of Oxford. Petrou lives in Ottawa.