Audiobook Putin and the Return of History

Author:: Martin Sixsmith
Narrator:: Jonathan Keeble
Content:: Unabridged (chapter list)
Length:: 10:42 h
Format:: MP3 download (429 MB)
Language:: English
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Continuum (2024)
Genres:: History, Politics & Current Affairs
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01 - Chapter 1	0:13	1 MB
02 - Chapter 2	5:15	3 MB
03 - Chapter 3	25:06	17 MB
04 - Chapter 4	22:43	15 MB
05 - Chapter 5	21:41	14 MB
06 - Chapter 6	17:58	11 MB
07 - Chapter 7	37:01	24 MB
08 - Chapter 8	26:45	17 MB
09 - Chapter 9	28:09	18 MB
10 - Chapter 10	37:42	25 MB
11 - Chapter 11	45:46	31 MB
12 - Chapter 12	52:34	35 MB
13 - Chapter 13	38:06	25 MB
14 - Chapter 14	43:23	29 MB
15 - Chapter 15	52:00	34 MB
16 - Chapter 16	38:01	25 MB
17 - Chapter 17	51:16	33 MB
18 - Chapter 18	45:39	30 MB
19 - Chapter 19	42:53	28 MB
20 - Chapter 20	9:33	6 MB
21 - Chapter 21	0:28	1 MB

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Summary

Bloomsbury presents Putin and the Return of History by Martin Sixsmith, read by Jonathan Keeble.
An original history of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics and rekindled the Cold War.
Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet communism, the West convinced itself that liberal democracy would henceforth be the dominant, ultimately unique, system of governance – a hubris that shaped how the West would treat Russia for the next two decades. But history wasn't over.
Putin is a paradox. In the early years of his presidency, he appeared to commit himself to friendship with the West, suggesting that Russia could join the European Union or even NATO. He said he supported free-market democracy and civil rights. But the Putin of those years is unrecognisable today. The Putin of the 2020s is an autocratic nationalist, dedicated to repression at home and anti-Western militarism abroad. So, what happened? Was he lying when he proclaimed his support for freedom, democracy and friendship with the West? Or, was he sincere? Did he change his views at some stage between then and now? And if that is the case, what happened to change him?
Putin and the Return of History examines these questions in the context of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics of aggression: the enduring terror of encirclement by outsiders, the subjugation of the individual to the cause of the state, the collectivist values that allow the sacrifice of human lives in battle, the willingness to lie and deceive, the co-opting of religion and the belief in Great Russia's mission to change the world.

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