MARTIN SIXSMITH
Martin Sixsmith studied Russian at Oxford, Leningrad and the Sorbonne. He was a Slavics Tutor at Harvard and wrote his postgraduate thesis about Russian poetry. From 1980 to 1997 he was the BBC’s correspondent in Moscow, Washington, Brussels and Warsaw. From 1997 to 2002 he worked for the British government as director of communications and press secretary to several cabinet ministers. He is now a writer, presenter and journalist. He is the author of non-fiction titles including Russia – The Wild East, Putin’s Oil and The Litvinenko File. His bestselling 2009 book, The Lost Child of Philomena Lee, was adapted for film and became the multiple Oscar-nominated Philomena, starring Steve Coogan and Judi Dench. You can sign up for email updates here.
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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
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