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Hybrid warriors : proxies, freelancers and Moscow's struggle for Ukraine
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ISBN: 9781787387959 Year: 2022 Publisher: London Hurst & Company

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The Russian government's deniable use of rogues, businessmen, enthusiasts, mercenaries and political technologists confounded policymakers as Moscow waged a covert invasion of Ukraine in 2014. Did Crimea and Donbas reveal the Kremlin's new 'hybrid war' playbook? Or was Moscow itself manipulated by the very forces it had unleashed? Given the disinformation and skewing of the narrative, it is no wonder that the international community has dramatically misunderstood the very nature of this war and was unprepared for the Kremlin's sudden and brutal escalation in 2022. As Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine risks pitting the world's great powers against each other, Hybrid Warriors traces the trajectory of the conflict from the bottom up. Starting from the first pivotal years in the 2010s, the book draws on unique interviews, reporting from the conflict zones, and wider on-the-ground research, to reconstruct the granular relationships between civilians, non-state actors, and the Kremlin that co-opted them. In the process, it speaks not just to the history of this conflict, but also to our wider understanding of how Putin's Kremlin works and how it has prosecuted its war on Ukraine.


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Freedom, repression, and private property in Russia
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ISBN: 9781107042148 9781107323780 9781461945222 1461945224 1107323789 9781107465398 1107465397 1107042143 1139893491 9781139893497 1107459729 9781107459724 1316609332 9781316609330 1107472547 9781107472549 1107468949 9781107468948 1107473527 9781107473522 110746188X 1306072352 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York, NY

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This study demonstrates how the emergence of private property and a market economy after the Soviet Union's collapse enabled a degree of freedom while simultaneously supporting authoritarianism. Based on case studies, Vladimir Shlapentokh and Anna Arutunyan analyze how private property and free markets spawn feudal elements in society. These elements are so strong in post-Communist Russia that they prevent the formation of a true democratic society, while making it impossible to return to totalitarianism. The authors describe the resulting Russian society as having three types of social organization: authoritarian, feudal and liberal. The authors examine the adaptation of Soviet-era institutions like security forces, the police and the army to free market conditions and how they generated corruption; the belief that the KGB was relatively free from corruption; how large property holdings merge with power and necessitate repression; and how property relations affect government management and suppression.


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Ondergang : Prigozjin, Poetin en de nieuwe strijd om de toekomst van Rusland
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ISBN: 9789044655483 Year: 2024 Publisher: Nederland Promotheus

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Een actuele beschouwing van de politieke situatie in Rusland aan de hand van het leven en de dood van Jevgeni Prigozjin. De moord op de beruchte krijgsheer Jevgeni Prigozjin in 2023 vormde een keerpunt in het hedendaagse Rusland. Mark Galeotti en Anna Arutunyan be- schrijven Prigozjins opkomst en ondergang, maar vooral de impact die hij had – en heeft – op de bevelhebbers in het Kremlin. De auteurs onderzoeken wat er op dit moment in de kringen rondom Poetin gebeurt, en hoe dat zal bepalen wat de toekomst van Poetin zelf is. Inzichtelijk en pakkend geschreven, met verhalende passages. Geschikt voor een brede tot geoefende lezersgroep. Mark Galeotti is een Britse historicus, politicoloog, docent. Hij schreef meerdere boeken. Anna Arutunyan is een Russisch-Amerikaanse journalist en analist.

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