Riding the Tiger: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the Uses of War

by Leon Aron

In Riding the Tiger, Leon Aron, an acclaimed Russian studies scholar and a Moscow native who was sanctioned by President Vladimir Putin's regime, chronicles the transformation of Russian politics and society under Putin. Through hundreds of Russian-language sources, Dr. Aron shows how Putin uses militarist propaganda and sanitized revisionist images of World War II, Stalin, and the Soviet Union to forge a nationalist and loyal core of his regime's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844750557
• ISBN13: 9780844750552
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: American Enterprise Institute
• Length: 200 Pages