Putin Vs. The People by Samuel A. Greene and Graeme B. Robertson xmasNF Back in the eighteenth century

Back in the eighteenth century

Vasily Eroshenko was one of the most remarkable transnational literary figures of the early twentieth century: a blind multilingual Esperantist from Ukraine who joined left-wing circles in Japan and befriended the famous modernist writer Lu Xun in China

But they also suffer the effects of civil war

State television terrifies viewers with false tales of anti-Russian conspiracies and genocidal yearnings

Putin Vs. The People by Samuel A. Greene and Graeme B. Robertson xmasNF Back in the eighteenth century'Putin v. the People wrestles with perhaps the central conundrum of contemporary Russia: the endurance of support for Putin amid deepening disillusionment with the present and pessimism about the future' Daniel Beer, The Guardian What do ordinary Russians think of Putin? Who are his supporters? And why might their support now be faltering? Alive with the voices and experiences of ordinary Russians and elites alike, Sam Greene and Graeme Robertson