The Russia Conundrum

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CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Preface

Introduction

PART ONE – A GREAT EXPERIMENT

  1.  Hopes and Aspirations

  2.  An Open Society

  3.  A Turning Point

  4.  Gambling Big

  5.  The Humbling

PART TWO – ENTER THE STRONGMAN

  6.  All Things to All Men

  7.  The Confrontation

  8.  An Anatomy of Corruption

  9.  Putin Unbound

10.  The Trial

11.  Arrested Development

12.  Gulag

PART THREE – EAST AND WEST

13.  Enemy at the Gates

14.  Managed Democracy

15.  International Operations

16.  What Is Russian for Fake News?

17.  Stop Thinking You Can Be Safe with the Bear

18.  Expansionist Dreams

19.  A Blunt Instrument

20.  You Are Not Safe

21.  Making Martyrs

22.  A Brighter Future

Acknowledgements

Notes

Picture Credits

Index

About the Authors

Copyright

First published in the United States by St. Martin’s Press, an imprint of St. Martin’s Publishing Group

THE RUSSIA CONUNDRUM. Copyright © 2022 by Mikhail Khodorkovsky. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Publishing Group, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271.

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Originally published in Great Britain by WH Allen, a Penguin Random House company

First U.S. Edition: 2022

eISBN: 9781250285607