A War Made in Russia

In this timely and incisive book, Sergei Medvedev argues that Russia’s war in Ukraine was not merely a whim of Putin’s obsession: rather, it was the result of two decades of authoritarian degradation and post-imperial ressentiment, a culmination of Putin’s regime and of Russia’s entire imperial history.  Building on his prize-winning book  The Return of the Russian Leviathan , Medvedev argues that it was not only Putin that started this war, but Russia itself, which, by and large, has