We Need to Talk About Putin: How the West Gets Him WrongMark Galeotti Ebury Press, 2019, $19.95, 160 pp.
Editor’s Note: This is the first essay in a multi-author series on “Getting Russia Right”. Coming next week: Carla Anne Robbins.Mark Galeotti’s new book, We Need to Talk About Putin—subtitled “How the West Gets Him Wrong”—is a sharp, short effort that gets Putin (mostly) right. Galeotti stresses that his book—more of a long essay, really—is not an academic study. In fact, it’s a rather playful work as a whole. At the start, Galeotti lists a “cast of characters” with short descriptions of …read more
Source: The American Interest
