The Chronology of Terror: Speeches & Decisions That Led to War
Russian War Rhetoric, State Propaganda, and the Decisions That Led to WarBy Vladimir Putin
Length30h 38m
About this audiobook
The Chronology of Terror: Speeches & Decisions That Led to War presents political violence as a historical sequence, arranging public addresses, policy choices, and decisive acts into an interpretive narrative of escalation. Its chronological structure gives the work the character of a documentary dossier, while its rhetoric draws on the traditions of political memoir, state historiography, and the justificatory war chronicle. Rather than treating conflict as an isolated eruption, the book directs attention to the language through which threats are defined, enemies constructed, and military action rendered necessary. Its literary force therefore lies less in ornamental prose than in juxtaposition: speeches acquire new meaning when read beside the decisions they accompanied and the consequences that followed. Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer and longtime Russian political leader, writes from within the institutions and ideological debates that shaped the period under examination. His experience of state power, national security, and post-Soviet transformation provides the presumed foundation for the book's emphasis on sovereignty, historical memory, and strategic necessity. The work can consequently be read both as testimony and as an exercise in political self-interpretation. Readers interested in modern geopolitics, propaganda, leadership rhetoric, and the relationship between language and armed conflict will find this volume especially valuable. It rewards careful, critical reading, inviting comparison between official explanations, chronological evidence, and the moral realities of war.
Audiobook details
GenrePolitics and Government
Length30 hrs 38 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 31, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Deterring the Dragon: Returning U.S. Forces to Taiwan (Annotated)
2Presidential Addresses
3Address by the President of the Russian Federation, September 21, 2022
4Address by the President of the Russian Federation, February 24, 2022
5Address by the President of the Russian Federation, February 21, 2022
Show all chaptersShow less
6Executive Orders
7Executive Order on measures implemented in Russian regions following Presidential Executive Order of October 19, 2022, on introducing martial law in the DPR, LPR and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, October 19, 2022
8Executive Order introducing martial law in the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, October 19, 2022
9Executive Order on partial mobilisation in the Russian Federation, September 21, 2022
10Treaties
11Signing of treaties on accession of Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics and Zaporozhye and Kherson regions to Russia, September 30, 2022
12Signing of documents recognising Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, February 21, 2022
13President signed Federal Law On Ratifying the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance Between the Russian Federation and the Donetsk People’s Republic, February 22, 2022
14President signed Federal Law On Ratifying the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance Between the Russian Federation and the Lugansk People’s Republic, February 22, 2022
15Memorandum on fulfilment of the provisions of the Protocol on the results of consultations of the Trilateral Contact Group11
16Minsk Protocol II. Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements12
17Statements
18Joint Statement of the Leaders of the Five Nuclear-Weapons States on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races, January 3, 2022
19Statement by Vladimir Putin on additional steps to de-escalate the situation in Europe after the termination of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty), October 26, 2020
20The ‘Putin Plan’ for settling the conflict in Ukraine, September 3, 2014
21Essays: On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians16
22On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians16
23Speeches and Meetings
242022:
25Meeting with mothers of military personnel – participants in the special military operation, November 25, 2022
26Meeting with members of Government Coordination Council on needs of Russia’s Armed Forces, November 24, 2022
27Meeting with historians and representatives of Russia’s traditional religions, November 4, 2022
28Meeting with Government Coordination Council on the needs of Russia’s Armed Forces, November 2, 2022
29Meeting with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, October 28, 2022
30Meeting with heads of CIS security and intelligence agencies, October 26, 2022
31Meeting with members of the Government Coordination Council on the needs of the Russian Armed Forces, October 25, 2022
32Meeting of the Security Council, October 19, 2022
33Vladimir Putin answered media questions, October 14, 2022
34Russia–Central Asia Summit, October 14, 2022
35Meeting of the CIS Heads of State Council, October 14, 2022
36Russian Energy Week International Forum plenary session, October 12, 2022
37Meeting with IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, October 11, 2022
38Meeting with President of the UAE Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, October 11, 2022
39Meeting with permanent members of the Security Council, October 10, 2022
40Meeting with elected heads of regions, October 10, 2022
41Meeting with Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin, October 9, 2022
42Meeting on economic issues, October 6, 2022
43Meeting with permanent members of the Security Council, September 29, 2022
44Meeting with the heads of security agencies and intelligence services of the CIS countries, September 29, 2022
45Gala concert devoted to the 1160th anniversary of Russian statehood, September 21, 2022
46Meeting with top managers of defence industry companies, September 20, 2022
47Presentation of foreign ambassadors' letters of credence, September 20, 2022
48Meeting of the SCO Heads of State Council, September 16, 2022
49Meeting with PRC President Xi Jinping and President of Mongolia Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh, September 15, 2022
50Meeting on economic issues, September 12, 2022
More from Vladimir Putin
The Putin Plan - In His Own WordsVladimir Putin35h 15m$0.99 · $0.00
The World Order: New Rules or a Game without Rules (Annotated)Vladimir Putin3h 46m4.5 (12)$2 · $0.00
The Chronology of Terror: Speeches & Decisions That Led to WarVladimir Putin30h 30m$1 · $0.00
The Putin Plan - In His Own WordsVladimir Putin30h 31m$1 · $0.00
Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Identity, History & Conflict (Annotated)Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelenskyy99h 4m$4 · $0.00
On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians (Annotated)Vladimir Putin6h 14m3.3 (54)$0.99 · $0.00
How to Test Negative for StupidJohn Kennedy8h 13m4.7 (9.7K)$28 · $0.00
Defying JihadEsther Ahmad8h 50m4.7 (4.8K)$20
Black AF HistoryMichael Harriot15h 43m4.7 (14.6K)$33 · $0.00
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn21h 56m4.7 (8.9K)$46 · $0.00
MotherlandJulia Ioffe17h 52m4.7 (2.5K)$40 · $0.00
HostageEli Sharabi5h 25m4.6 (10.8K)$24 · $0.00
Pardon of Innocencethe Author, Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn (Ret.)6h 23m4.8 (190)$23
KrantikariSanjeev Sanyal11h 44m4.6 (1.3K)$16 · $0.00
Unbroken Bonds of BattleJohnny Joey Jones8h 31m4.6 (2.6K)$8 · $0.00
On Democracies and Death CultsDouglas Murray10h 38m4.6 (6.5K)$29 · $0.00
Legally YoursManasi Chaudhari8h 52m4.7 (223)$29 · $0.00
Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and BeyondJohn Lyons12h 37m4.6 (1.4K)$33 · $0.00
RiggedMollie Hemingway12h 48m4.6 (4.2K)$23 · $0.00
The Thomas Sowell ReaderThomas Sowell14h 51m4.6 (2.3K)$25
SledgehammerDavid Friedman8h 21m4.7 (589)$26 · $0.00
So You Want to Talk about RaceIjeoma Oluo7h 41m4.6 (146.2K)$17
Citizenship in a Republic (Annotated)Theodore Roosevelt2h 44m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
No EscapeNury Turkel9h 30m4.6 (809)$28 · $0.00
In Defense of the Second AmendmentLarry Correia6h 50m4.6 (866)$17
Always FaithfulThomas Schueman, Zainullah Zaki12h 12m4.6 (977)$29 · $0.00
You may also like
Magnificent DelusionsHusain Haqqani14h 22m4.2 (1.2K)$23
The Cold War's Killing FieldsPaul Thomas Chamberlin22h 31m4.3 (939)$46 · $0.00
The Hidden History of the White HouseCorey Mead8h 46m4.1 (653)$29 · $0.00
The Sword of FreedomYossi Cohen9h 47m4.0 (692)$8 · $0.00
The Art of WarSun Tzu1h 12m4.1 (680.7K)$4 · $0.00
KargilV.P. Malik15h 18m4.3 (2K)$24 · $0.00
A History of the Later Roman Empire (Vol. 1&2)J. B. Bury46h 19m4.4 (1.2K)$2 · $0.00
In the Graveyard of EmpiresSeth G. Jones13h 10m4.0 (2K)$28
O Jerusalem!Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre23h 42m4.4 (7.7K)$30
History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American RevolutionMercy Otis Warren33h 44m4.2 (535)$1 · $0.00
The History of the Peloponnesian WarThucydides21h 50m4.2 (52.7K)Free
Games without RulesTamim Ansary14h 40m4.4 (2.4K)$23
The Khalistan ConspiracyG.B.S. Sidhu9h 2m4.4 (527)$29 · $0.00
The Russo-Japanese Conflict: Its Causes and Issues (Annotated)Kan'ichi Asakawa12h 46m$0.99 · $0.00
Failing to Confront Islamic TotalitarianismOnkar Ghate, Elan Journo6h 6m4.2 (43)$17 · $0.00
Fighting TerrorismBenjamin Netanyahu4h 47m3.9 (456)$14 · $0.00
Secret Diplomatic History of The Eighteenth CenturyKarl Marx2h 58m3.8 (156)$2 · $0.00
A Journal of the Expedition to CarthagenaAnonymous, Tobias Smollett, Thomas Wentworth2h 5m$1 · $0.00
Three Frenchmen in BengalSamuel Charles Hill5h 25m$2 · $0.00
The Struggle for Imperial Unity: Recollections & ExperiencesGeorge T. Denison8h 42m$2 · $0.00