
The Story of Putin
By United States Department of Defense, U.S. Navy, Christopher T. GansLength4h 57m
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Does Vladimir Putin truly hate America? Do the people he presides over truly hate America? This book analyzes modern anti-Americanism in Russia during the era of Vladimir Putin. The main objective of this book is to evaluate Vladimir Putin's anti-Americanism and the domestic political implications of Putinist anti-Americanism within Russia. Contents: Putin's Evolving Anti-Americanism Putin's Hybrid-authoritarian Machine Implications of Russians' Anti-Americanism Putin's Early History Early Life and College Into the Shadows: Putin in the KGB and the Case for a Long Term Cognitive Predisposition Yeltsin Era Putin in the Aftermath of Collapse Russia and the West in the 1990s: U.S. As an Inadvertent Contributor to PutinistAnti-americanism NATO Balkans Economic Collapse and the Absence of U.S. Aid Putin: A Sudden Thrust Into the Limelight Putin's Short-lived Premiership and Acting Presidency Crisis in Chechnya Presidential Election of 2000 Putin's First Presidency Integrate Into or With the West… or Neither? The Attacks of 9/11 and the Aftermath Brotherly Love: Putin and Bush Iraq and a Sudden Turn Against America? Putin's Second Presidency Shift From the West America Inadvertently Plays Into Putin's Hand The Future of U.S. Unilateralism Western Turn by Former Constituent States Critical Reciprocity? Attack on Those Who Criticize Him President to Puppet Master and Back Again: Putin's Recent Premiership and Return to the Presidency Georgia The Obama-Medvedev Reset: Short Lived or DOA? Russian Anti-Americanism: The Man, the Machine, and the Nation The Russian Connection: Anti-Americanism and the Putin-state-polity Link Anti-Americanism's Role in the Future of Russian–American Relations Most Recent Events How Can America Cope?
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GenrePolitics and Government, Literary Classics
Length4 hrs 57 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 5, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A. PURPOSE
281. Georgia
2B. IMPORTANCE
292. The Obama-Medvedev Reset: Short Lived or DOA?
3C. HYPOTHESIS AND THEORY
303. The 2012 Election and Putin’s Third Term
41. Putin’s Evolving Anti-Americanism
314. Ongoing Events
52. Putin’s Hybrid-Authoritarian Machine
32G. CONCLUSIONS
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63. Implications of Russians’ Anti-Americanism
331. True Authoritarian States
7E. METHODOLOGY AND SOURCES
342. Hybrid Authoritarian States
8F. ROADMAP
351. Attack the Yeltsin Years
91. Early Life and College
362. State Control and Resource Theory
102. Into the Shadows: Putin in the KGB and the Case for a Long Term Cognitive Predisposition
37a. “Democratic” Elections
111. Putin in the Aftermath of Collapse
38b. Political Parties
12a. NATO
391. Elites
13b. Balkans
402. The Public at Large
14c. Economic Collapse and the Absence of U.S. Aid
41D. CONCLUSION
15a. Crisis in Chechnya
421. The Pre-Putin Years
16b. Presidential Election of 2000
432. Under Putin: Fluctuating or as Steady as Putin?
171. Integrate Into or With the West… or Neither?
441. Disenchantment Under Yeltsin
182. The Attacks of 9/11 and the Aftermath
452. Anti-Americanism to Demonstrate one’s Political Bona Fides
193. Brotherly Love: Putin and Bush
461. A Leader Representative of his Constituents
204. Iraq and a Sudden Turn Against America?
472. Distract the Constituents
215. Elections of 2003 and 2004
48D. CONCLUSION
221. Shift from the West
491. Summary of Findings
23a. NATO
502. The Russian Connection: Anti-Americanism and the Putin-State-Polity Link
24b. The Future of U.S. Unilateralism
511. Most Recent Events
25c. BMD
522. How Can America Cope?
26d. Western Turn by Former Constituent States
53C. FINAL ANALYSIS
273. Critical Reciprocity? Attack on Those who Criticize Him