Joy Neumeyer on Jade McGlynn, Memory Makers and Russia’s War. Twin studies, scholarly and less so, of the uses of the past in Putin’s war for Ukraine.
Joy Neumeyer on Timothy Frye, Weak Strongman. Data-rich anatomization of Putin’s mode of rule and Russian views of it.
Joy Neumeyer on Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, The Red Mirror: Putin’s Leadership and Russia’s Insecure Identity. Sociological inquiry into the bases of Putin’s support, beyond hoary anti-Soviet stereotypes.