Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?
Written by Karen Dawisha
Narrated by Robert Petkoff
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About this audiobook
Russian scholar Dawisha describes and exposes the origins of Putin’s kleptocratic regime. She presents extensive new evidence about the Putin circle’s use of public positions for personal gain even before Putin became president in 2000. She documents the establishment of Bank Rossiya, now sanctioned by the US; the rise of the Ozero cooperative, founded by Putin and others who are now subject to visa bans and asset freezes; the links between Putin, Petromed, and “Putin’s Palace” near Sochi; and the role of security officials from Putin’s KGB days in Leningrad and Dresden, many of whom have maintained their contacts with Russian organized crime.
Putin’s Kleptocracy is the result of years of research into the KGB and the various Russian crime syndicates. Dawisha’s sources include Stasi archives; Russian insiders; investigative journalists in the US, Britain, Germany, Finland, France, and Italy; and Western officials who served in Moscow. Russian journalists wrote part of this story when the Russian media was still free. “Many of them died for this story, and their work has largely been scrubbed from the Internet, and even from Russian libraries,” Dawisha says. “But some of that work remains.”
Karen Dawisha
Karen Dawisha is the Walter E. Havighurst Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and the director of the University’s Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies. She has written five previous books, eight edited volumes, and numerous journal articles, and continues to do research and teaching in the areas of post-communist transitions and Russian politics.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I. Thought. It. Ed. Ok. And. Explained. Ow. Putin. Took. Power. In. Rusis
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Truth will set you free. Praying all peoples may grow in freedom and truth, with compassion on all.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5So far the content and style are excellent. The reader is too, but there's a slight echo with the audio. Not like that on other books. Can anyone help?