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ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Watching Prighozhin lead his Wagner mercenary army towards Moscow in June 2023 in a mutiny against Putin was electrifying. Who was this man and how had this come about? In this well-paced book the authors examine the rise and fall of Yevgeny Viktorovich Prighozhin, known as Zhenya, as a way of looking at the operation of the Russian state overall - the precarious positions of oligarchs, the military machine and the balance of power. With a laughable pretence at democracy, Putin's Russia resembles a drug cartel with those around him vying for business opportunities in exchange for absolute loyalty. No-one rests easy. Prighozhin was an outsider, a convicted violent thief, who despite his efforts to rise in legitimacy and esteem with the major players of the Kremlin and the oligarchy, was doomed to always remain a serf in their eyes. That's not to say the man had no skills or talents - he was very capable in many ways; a man on the make. As with any such person, we can only wonder what might have been achieved if their energies had been focused on a common good. Craig
Mark Galeotti (Author) Professor Mark Galeotti is one of the foremost Russia-watchers today, who travels there regularly to teach, lecture, talk to his contacts, and generally watch the unfolding story of the Putin era. Based in London, he is Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute of International Relations Prague, having previously headed its Centre for European Security, and was before then Professor of Global Affairs at NYU. A prolific author on Russia and security affairs, he frequently acts as consultant to various government, commercial and law-enforcement agencies. Anna Arutunyan (Author) Anna Arutunyan is a Russia-American journalist, analyst and author. Born in Moscow, she was raised and educated in the United States before returning to Russia as a journalist. She covered two decades of Russian politics, first as reporter and editor at The Moscow News, then as a correspondent and analyst. She has served as Russia's senior analyst for the International Crisis Group, and only left Russia after the February 2022 invasion. She has a wide range of contacts in Russian politics and business and worked on the ground in both Crimea and the Donbas after the outbreak of the undeclared conflict in 2014. She is now Associate Director of the consultancy Mayak Intelligence and a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center. Her articles have appeared regularly in USA Today, Foreign Affairs, and other publications worldwide. She is the author of several books on Russia, including The Putin Mystique (Skyscraper), translated into over a dozen languages, and the latest on Russia's war in Ukraine, Hybrid Warriors- Proxies, Freelancers and Moscow's Struggle for Ukraine (Hurst).
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Watching Prighozhin lead his Wagner mercenary army towards Moscow in June 2023 in a mutiny against Putin was electrifying. Who was this man and how had this come about? In this well-paced book the authors examine the rise and fall of Yevgeny Viktorovich Prighozhin, known as Zhenya, as a way of looking at the operation of the Russian state overall - the precarious positions of oligarchs, the military machine and the balance of power. With a laughable pretence at democracy, Putin's Russia resembles a drug cartel with those around him vying for business opportunities in exchange for absolute loyalty. No-one rests easy. Prighozhin was an outsider, a convicted violent thief, who despite his efforts to rise in legitimacy and esteem with the major players of the Kremlin and the oligarchy, was doomed to always remain a serf in their eyes. That's not to say the man had no skills or talents - he was very capable in many ways; a man on the make. As with any such person, we can only wonder what might have been achieved if their energies had been focused on a common good. Craig
[Mark Galeotti and Anna Arutunyan] have penned not only a deeply interesting biography of Prigozhin, but also a penetrating account of Russia under Putin. Downfall is as much a biography of a system as a biography of a man. * Joshua Huminski, Diplomatic Courier * A year after the failed uprising of Yevgeny Prigozhin and the mercenaries of the Wagner Company against the regime led by President Vladimir Putin, a book written by two of the greatest experts on Russia makes the biography of this character as violent as it is complex. * Radio France Internationale *
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