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Brought to you by Penguin. In the early years of Vladmir Putin’s Russia, Yevgeny Prigozhin emerged as one of the President’s most trusted assets. By 2023, he had become a dangerous warlord – and also one of Putin’s chief rivals in Russia’s tumultuous political climate, exiled after...

Navalny. Lenin. Pugachev. The Russian rebel—in his epic battle against the Leviathan of the Russian state—has enthralled readers and writers for decades. The rebel's story is almost always a sad one that ends in exile, imprisonment, or martyrdom, leaving but a seed for the future reform of the Leviathan which he or she had taken on.

Hvordan kan det vaere at Rusland altid ender med en tsar, uanset om de har enevaelde, kommunisme eller demokrati? Hvad enten den staerke mand så hedder Ivan den Grusomme, Josef Stalin eller Vladimir Putin? "Mystikken om Putin" er en aktuel og kontroversiel bog af den russisk/amerikanske journalist Anna Arutunyan, der har arbejdet som politisk korrespondent fra Moskva igennem ti år. Anna Arutunyan viser at det velkendte spørgsmål "Hvem er Putin?" i virkeligheden er et trickspørgsmål: for at forstå Putin må man forstå den russiske mentalitet, der har tilladt Putin at blive, den han er.