PUTIN

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - Leningrad Boy
3. Chapter Two - The KGB Mind
4. Chapter Three - Dresden Falling
5. Chapter Four - The Empire Dies
6. Chapter Five - From Nobody to Kremlin
7. Chapter Six - Year 2000
8. Chapter Seven - The Oligarch War
9. Chapter Eight - The Chechen Message
10. Chapter Nine - Information Armor
11. Chapter Ten - The Long Presidency
12. Chapter Eleven - Crimea Is Ours
13. Chapter Twelve - Syria and Smoke
14. Chapter Thirteen - America, Hacked
15. Chapter Fourteen - Navalny and the Poison
16. Chapter Fifteen - The War That Broke the Myth
17. Chapter Sixteen - The Last Circle
18. Chapter Seventeen - The Cult of Stability

Excerpt

PROLOGUE PUTIN DIDN’T GET elected because people believed in him. He was handed the job. Yeltsin was done and needed someone to keep him protected on the way out. So he picked a guy most people had never heard of, a quiet ex-KGB guy with no personality and little baggage. And just like that, Putin was president. He didn’t waste time. Once he got in, he locked everything down. The media, the money, the courts, the elections, all of it. Anyone who had too much power or talked too loud got pushed out, shut up, or taken care of. It didn’t happen all at once, but it started fast. He didn’t run on hope or sell freedom. He sold control. The message was simple: the chaos is over, I’ve got it...