Shop By

Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped

Garry Kasparov

€ 17.99

€ 13.03

You save € 4.96!

FREE Delivery in Ireland

Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days

Description for Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped Paperback. The stunning story of Russia's slide back into a dictatorship - and how the West is now paying the price for allowing it to happen. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; JPA; JPHL; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 302.
The stunning story of Russia's slide back into a dictatorship - and how the West is now paying the price for allowing it to happen. The ascension of Vladimir Putin - a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB - to the presidency of Russia in 1999 was a strong signal that the country was headed away from democracy. Yet in the intervening years - as America and the world's other leading powers have continued to appease him - Putin has grown not only into a dictator but an international threat. With his vast resources and nuclear arsenal, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher

Atlantic Books

Format

Paperback

Publication date

2016

Condition

New

Number of Pages

320

Place of Publication

London, United Kingdom

ISBN

9781782397892

SKU

V9781782397892

Shipping Time

Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days

Ref

99-10

About Garry Kasparov

Garry Kasparov spent twenty years as the world's #1 ranked chess player. In 2005, he retired from professional chess to lead the pro-democracy opposition against Vladimir Putin, from street protests to coalition building. In 2012, he was named chairman of the Human Rights Foundation, succeeding Vaclav Havel. He has been a contributing editor to the Wall Street Journal since 1991 ... Read more

Reviews for Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped

Garry Kasparov has written a passionate indictment both of Russia's kleptocracy and the complacency of Western democracies in the face of Putin. This threat has become our central foreign policy challenge, and Kasparov's arguments are essential in understanding how to face it.
Francis Fukuyama
Garry Kasparov is a mastermind in chess and politics, and he understands the evil ... Read moreof the Putin regime better than anyone. This book is a clear and accurate observation of the mess we are in due to the West's inaction towards Putin, and a stark warning of what will happen if we fail to act in the future. It should be required reading for every head of state and their electorate.
Bill Browder, author of Red Notice
Garry Kasparov has the information-processing capacity of a supercomputer and the eloquence of an extraordinary orator. It takes a mind and a heart like his to analyze the last twenty-five years of the history of Russia in the world and emerge with not only an indictment of Western complicity but a clear call for Western action.
Masha Gessen, author of Man Without a Face and Words Will Break Cement
It's always important to read Garry Kasparov, who warned of the dangers of Putinism long before so many others. He is that rare thing: A Russian democrat who is realistic about his country, but remains hopeful for the future.
Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain
A compelling story of courage... Winter Is Coming presents a picture of the internal forces propelling Russia's descent into aggressive authoritarianism. And if offers a scathing analysis of the contribution of the West to that outcome.
Wall Street Journal
Ferocious and unforgiving... This is a book that should be read by every policymaker dealing with Russia (or any other autocracy)
John Thornhill
Financial Times
In this punchy polemic, Kasparov reflects on how far the world has gone from the heady end of history days of the early 1990s to what some see as the advent of a new Cold War... Kasparov's moral clarity is admirable and informed by personal experience.
Peter Conradi
Sunday Times
The main target of this brave, trenchant and convincing book is not the thuggish and dangerous regime that misrules Russia, but the cowardly wishful thinking in the West that refuses to stop it... The book ably summarises the many other alarm calls the West has missed... Let us hope that Kasparov's book becomes a bestseller
Edward Lucas
The Times
Show Less

Shop By

Categories

Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped

Garry Kasparov

Product Details

Goodreads reviews for Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped

Subscribe to our newsletter