{"product_id":"riding-the-tiger-vladimir-putins-russia-and-the-uses-of-war-9780844750545","title":"Riding the Tiger: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the Uses of War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This elegantly written book is an incisive chronicle of contemporary Russian history. . . . Leon Aron has the firsthand observer's keen eye for the twists of fate and the skilled analyst's deep knowledge of the interplay of events that brought Putin to, and then well-beyond, the point of no return.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e--Fiona Hill, distinguished senior fellow, Brookings Institution; senior director for European and Russian affairs, National Security Council\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eRiding the Tiger: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the Uses of War, \u003c\/i\u003e Leon Aron, an acclaimed Russian studies scholar, American Enterprise Institute senior fellow, and Moscow native who was sanctioned by President Vladimir Putin's regime, chronicles the transformation of Russian politics and society under Putin. Through hundreds of Russian-language sources, Aron shows how Putin uses militarist propaganda and sanitized revisionist images of World War II, Stalin, and the Soviet Union to forge a nationalist and loyal core of his regime's support.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnd the \"new Russia\" suddenly looks a lot like the old USSR.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDr. Aron's bold, expert analysis of Russian political culture helps us better understand Russia's revanchist tendencies, its invasion of Ukraine, and the perilous road ahead. Aron argues that Putin's actions are driven by the Russian president's need to ensure his regime's survival, avenge the fall of the Soviet Union, combat the \"America-led West,\" and make Russia a superpower again. Putin is now stuck in a vast and savage war that he can neither win nor walk away from. He hopes America and its allies undergo \"Ukraine fatigue,\" but what if he decides he cannot outwait the West? Aron concludes the book with a detailed scenario of another war in which Putin would bring Russia and the US to the brink of nuclear conflict to scare the West into a \"settlement\" in Ukraine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeon Aron was born in\u003cbr\u003eMoscow and came to the United States as a refugee from the Soviet Union. He is\u003cbr\u003ethe author of \u003ci\u003eRoads to the\u003cbr\u003eTemple: Truth, Memory, Ideas, and Ideals in the Making of the Russian\u003cbr\u003eRevolution\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e1987-1991 \u003c\/i\u003e(Yale University\u003cbr\u003ePress, 2012); \u003ci\u003eRussia's\u003cbr\u003eRevolution: Essays, 1989-2006 \u003c\/i\u003e(AEI Press, \u003cbr\u003e2007); and \u003ci\u003eYeltsin: A\u003cbr\u003eRevolutionary Life \u003c\/i\u003e(St. Martin's Press, \u003cbr\u003e2000). From 2014 to 2020, he served on the board of trustees of the US Agency\u003cbr\u003efor Global Media. He holds a PhD from Columbia University and is a senior\u003cbr\u003efellow at the American Enterprise Institute.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"AEI Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50625693581586,"sku":"9780844750545","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_533ebb90-00fc-4b1c-bb63-6416825d1868.jpg?v=1762934217","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/riding-the-tiger-vladimir-putins-russia-and-the-uses-of-war-9780844750545","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}