Putin's Progress: A Biography of Russia's Enigmatic President, Vladimir Putin

by Peter Truscott

Book Overview

Russia's current president, and a racing certainty to be re-elected in 2004, Vladimir Putin seemed to have come from nowhere when he succeeded Boris Yeltsin in March 2000. It was as if he had taken the Kremlin by stealth -- perhaps using the skills he acquired as a senior officer in the KGB. In fact, Putin's rise to prominence owes more to a combination of canny manoeuvring and good old-fashioned patronage. A fiercely loyal citizen of St Petersburg,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743240057
• ISBN13: 9780743240055
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 370 Pages