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"""[Zygar] feels he has taken up arms. . . . To change the future, the author believes we must understand the past. . . . [Thus] he writes entirely in the present tense as he journeys through the centuries."" --Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times ""A superb account of all that led to Vladimir Putin's brutal and misbegotten invasion of Ukraine... Zygar's book provides an ardent, informed understanding of the present."" --New Yorker ""Why is my country fascist--and what is my role in that? For Russia to ever change these are the questions Russians will need to ask. Zygar does it with a searing mix of history and self-reflection."" --Peter Pomerantsev, author of This Is Not Propaganda ""Zygar has invented a new genre. If Tolstoy's story is a wide river, Proust's is a slow river, Zygar's is a chase. Alas, under President Putin's rule, no one would dare to publish this terrific book in Russia. So it's easy to tell if the regime has changed--if Zygar is openly on sale in Moscow shops, then yes."" --Dmitry Muratov, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, 2021 ""To account for Russia's descent into the abyss and the most bloody war in Europe since WWII, Zygar invites us to walk an uneasy path of reconsideration of the recent past. His book is not only a guide to that past but also a powerful call to change the present."" --Serhii Plokhy, author of The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine"

"""A superb account of all that led to Vladimir Putin's brutal and misbegotten invasion of Ukraine... Zygar's book provides an ardent, informed understanding of the present."" --New Yorker, Best Books of 2023 ""[Zygar] feels he has taken up arms. . . . To change the future, the author believes we must understand the past. . . . [Thus] he writes entirely in the present tense as he journeys through the centuries."" --Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times ""Why is my country fascist--and what is my role in that? For Russia to ever change these are the questions Russians will need to ask. Zygar does it with a searing mix of history and self-reflection."" --Peter Pomerantsev, author of This Is Not Propaganda ""Zygar has invented a new genre. If Tolstoy's story is a wide river, Proust's is a slow river, Zygar's is a chase. Alas, under President Putin's rule, no one would dare to publish this terrific book in Russia. So it's easy to tell if the regime has changed--if Zygar is openly on sale in Moscow shops, then yes."" --Dmitry Muratov, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, 2021 ""To account for Russia's descent into the abyss and the most bloody war in Europe since WWII, Zygar invites us to walk an uneasy path of reconsideration of the recent past. His book is not only a guide to that past but also a powerful call to change the present."" --Serhii Plokhy, author of The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine"

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"Mikhail Zygar worked for Newsweek Russia and the business daily Kommersant, covering the conflicts in Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Serbia, and Kosovo before becoming founding editor in chief of Russia's only independent news TV channel, Dozhd, which provided an alternative to Kremlin-controlled federal TV channels and gave a platform to opposition voices. He won the International Press Freedom Award in 2014. He is the author of All the Kremlin's Men, a #1 bestseller in Russia that has been translated into over twenty languages and was called one of ""nine books that can help you understand Russia right now"" by Time magazine, and The Empire Must Die, a Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year."

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