Putin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War

by Martin Sixsmith

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399409867
• ISBN13: 9781399409865
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.3"