Putin: The explosive and extraordinary new biography of Russia’s leader

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He started off as a member of the Soviet intelligentsia and came to the fore in the Gorbachev period. Putin has confounded world leaders and defied their assumptions as they tried to figure him out, only to misjudge him time and again. Kant’s experience of living in a militarised state governed by a single man is eerily relevant today.

He did so even while warning that Ukraine, as a puppet regime of the West, might deploy WMDs (which it agreed to give up in 1994 in exchange for protection from Russian invasion) against Russia. He plumbs an array of sources, including his own interviews, to reconstruct the tale of a street brawler from a bleak communal apartment in postwar Leningrad who embarks on a mediocre career as a midlevel K. It’s a stealing machine based on tens of billions of dollars, which the people in charge aren’t going to give up lightly. I'm an experimental social psychologist and Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.

There were rats in the apartment building where his family lived, and Putin and his friends would chase them with sticks. The ones I’ve listed here I feel present the most well-rounded picture, from a wide variety of perspectives.

In late 1999, Putin, then prime minister, issued a long essay on “Russia at the Turn of the Millennium,” lamenting his country’s deteriorating international standing.In his writings over the decades, Russian President Vladimir Putin has outlined his vision of Russia's role on the world stage — and what he sees as the United States' efforts to undermine it.