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Free Download Ideology and Meaning-Making under the Putin Regime by Marlene Laruelle
English | January 14, 2025 | ISBN: 1503631397, 1503641597 | True EPUB/PDF | 414 pages | 3.2/8 MB
Much has been written to try to understand the ideological characteristics of the current Russian government, as well as what is happening inside the mind of Vladimir Putin. Refusing pundits’ clichés that depict the Russian regime as either a cynical kleptocracy or the product of Putin’s grand Machiavellian designs, Ideology and Meaning-Making under the Putin Regime offers a critical genealogy of ideology in Russia today. Marlene Laruelle provides an innovative, multi-method analysis of the Russian regime’s ideological production process and the ways it is operationalized in both domestic and foreign policies.

Free Download Helge Blakkisrud, "Political Legitimacy and Traditional Values in Putin’s Russia"
English | ISBN: 1399539000 | 2025 | 328 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Since Vladimir Putin’s return to the Russian presidency in 2012, protection and promotion of so-called ‘traditional values’ has played a prominent role in the Kremlin’s propaganda campaigns. From the large-scale demonstrations in 2011-2012 to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, conservative social values have been mobilised to justify the Kremlin’s policy choices. In the case of the invasion, for example, Putin argued that the allegedly ‘decadent’ western world was using Ukraine as a springboard to export its ‘pseudo-values’ into Russia. Drawing on a series of case studies spanning elite-level political rhetoric, the work of various ideological ‘values entrepreneurs’ such as the Russian Orthodox Church, and, not least, of grassroots sentiments, Political Legitimacy and Traditional Values in Putin’s Russia

Free Download Putin: Power, Legacy, and the Making of a Modern Tsar
by Shivan Ramraj
English | December 15, 2024 | ASIN: B0DQLPJ4T3 | 335 pages | PDF | 126 Mb

Free Download Putin’s War on Ukraine: Russia’s Campaign for Global Counter-Revolution by Samuel Ramani
English | June 20, 2023 | ISBN: 1787388514 | 592 pages | PDF | 7.54 Mb
Eight years after annexing Crimea, Russia embarked on a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine in February 2022. For Vladimir Putin, this was a legacy-defining mission-to restore Russia’s sphere of influence and undo Ukraine’s surprisingly resilient democratic experiment. Yet Putin’s aspirations were swiftly eviscerated, as the conflict degenerated into a bloody war of attrition and the Russian economy faced crippling sanctions. How can we make sense of his decision to invade?

Free Download Aldo Ferrari, Giancarlo Aragona, "Putin’s Russia: Really Back?"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 8867054813 | EPUB | pages: 142 | 0.6 mb
Attempts by Washington and Brussels to push Russia to the fringes of global politics because of the Ukrainian crisis seem to have failed. Thanks to its important role in mediating the Iranian nuclear agreement, and to its unexpected military intervention in Syria, Moscow proved once again to be a key player in international politics. However, Russia’s recovered assertiveness may represents a challenge to the uncertain leadership of the West. This report aims to gauging Russia’s current role in the light of recent developments on the international stage. The overall Russian foreign policy strategy is examined by taking into account its most important issues: Ukraine and the relationship with the West; the Middle East (intervention in Syria, and ongoing relations with Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia); the development of the Eurasian Economic Union; the Russian pivot towards Asia, and China in particular. The volume also analyzes if and to what extent Moscow can fulfill its ambitions in a context of falling oil prices and international sanctions.

Free Download Putin’s Revenge: Why Russia Invaded Ukraine (Woodrow Wilson Center) by Lucian Kim
English | December 3rd, 2024 | ISBN: 0231214022 | 344 pages | True EPUB | 1.85 MB
In February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a bloody escalation of a conflict that had begun eight years earlier. What drove Vladimir Putin to launch Europe’s largest land war since World War II?

Free Download Christopher T. Gans, "PUTIN: The History of the Reign & The Shape-Shifting Strategy: Putin’s Early History, Putin’s Evolving Anti-Americanism, Putin’s Hybrid-authoritarian Machine, Putin’s Political Career"
English | 2018 | ASIN: B078RM9MD6 | EPUB | pages: 188 | 0.9 mb
Is Vladimir Putin nuts? Has he drunk too much Russian vodka? Does he truly hate America? Do the people he presides over truly hate America? This book analyzes modern anti-Americanism in Russia during the era of Vladimir Putin. The main objective is to evaluate Vladimir Putin’s anti-Americanism and the domestic political implications of Putinist anti-Americanism within Russia.

Free Download Federica Prina, "National Minorities in Putin’s Russia"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1138476056 | PDF | pages: 281 | 3.6 mb
Using a human rights approach, the book analyses the dynamics in the application of minority policies for the preservation of cultural and linguistic diversity in Russia. Despite Russia’s legacy of ethno-cultural and linguistic pluralism, the book argues that the Putin leadership’s overwhelming statism and promotion of Russian patriotism are inexorably leading to a reduction of Russia’s diversity. Using scores of interviews with representatives of national minorities, civil society, public officials and academics, the book highlights the reasons why Russian law and policies, as well as international standards on minority rights, are ill-equipped to withstand the centralising drive toward ever greater uniformity. While minority policies are fragmented and feeble in contemporary Russia, they are also centrally conceived, which is exacerbated by a growing democratic deficit under Putin. Crucially, in today’s Russia informal practices and networks are frequently utilised rather than formal channels in the sphere of diversity management. Informal practices, the book argues, can at times favour minorities, yet they more frequently disadvantage them and create the conditions for the co-optation of leaders of minority groups. A dilution of diversity, the book suggests, is not only resulting in the loss of Russia’s rich cultural heritage but is also impairing the peaceful coexistence of the individuals and groups that make up Russian society.

Free Download Putin’s Wars and NATO’s Flaws: Why Russia Invaded Ukraine by Paul Moorcraft
English | January 6, 2024 | ISBN: 1399031422 | 224 pages | MOBI | 10 Mb
Examines the complex military and political issues in an accessible manner while telling a compelling historical narrative.

Free Download Putin and Trump: enemies, rivals, allies, partners, friends or competitors? by Samuel Greenberg
English | July 26, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DBC743H7 | 275 pages | EPUB | 0.64 Mb
Today the world is in a transition period to the next level of development of the human community on our planet. God created the universe to exist in constant motion and balance. But in human society and politics, there are always different points of view on global problems, which often threaten nuclear war and the disappearance of world civilization. Moreover, due to the current political and economic situation, the world is divided into two large and opposing groups. The first group includes totalitarian autocratic countries Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. The remainder of the world, led by the US, Canada, Australia, and EU nations, is included in the second category. The situation is complicated by the Covid-19 pandemic, inflation, the high cost of living, Russian aggression against Ukraine, the war between Israel and the terrorist organization Hamas and Iranian proxies. History repeats itself. The world is in a Cold War between two coalitions: Good and Evil. Based on actual events, the author of this book attempted to illustrate and analyse the historical perspectives of political leaders in Moscow, the EU, and Washington regarding the stances of the major powers.