Tony Wood and James Meek: Russia Without Putin
b'Does the West\\u2019s obsession with Vladimir Putin prevent it from genuinely understanding Russia? In Russia Without Putin (Verso), LRB contributor and Russophile Tony Wood argues that the core features of Putinism\\u2014a predatory, authoritarian elite presiding over a vastly unequal society\\u2014are integral to the system set in place after the fall of Communism, a legacy of Yeltsinism rather than a resurgence of Soviet authoritarianism. Tony Wood was in conversation with James Meek, LRB Contributing Editor and author of Private Island (Verso).
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