This article is the third of three essays on the possible collapse of Putin’s Russia. The second is here.In the study of post-post-Cold War Russia, Kremlinology has been superseded by Putinology, variously hailed as an indispensable tool or derided as a pathetic pseudoscience. This increasing focus on the persona of Vladimir Putin is in part misplaced, but in a larger measure justified.On the one hand, as Thomas Graham has aptly noted, the West does not have a Putin problem, it has a Russia problem. Putin is not popular domestically because he has brainwashed his citizenry, but because his narrative about …read more
Source: The American Interest
