Mr. Putin, Operative in the Kremlin

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The book cover of Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy's 'Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin', with an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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For those of us in the democratic West, the rise of authoritarianism in countries like the USA and Hungary has come as a nasty surprise, one that is difficult to accept. Though if we were to look back over the history of dictatorship in the past hundred years, we should not be surprised.