Norma Clarke considers the third and final volume of Charles Moore’s biography of Margaret Thatcher; having spent the past twenty years reporting on Russia, Owen Matthews tries to put his finger on why Vladimir Putin may prove to be one of the most successful political leaders of our eraBooksThe Code of Putinism by Brian Taylor Putin’s World: Russia against the West and with the rest by Angela Stent The Putin System: An opposing view by Grigory YavlinskyKremlin Winter: Russia and the second coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert ServiceThe Return of the Russian Leviathan by Sergei Medvedev, translated by Stephen DalzielWe Need To Talk about Putin: How the West gets him wrong by Mark GaleottiDealing with the Russians by Andrew MonaghanPutin v. the People: The perilous politics of a divided Russia by Samuel A. Greene and Graeme B. RobertsonRussia’s Crony Capitalism: The path from market economy to kleptocracy by Anders Åslund
 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.