{"product_id":"black-wind-white-snow-by-charles-clover-9780300268355","title":"Black Wind, White Snow","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fascinating study of the root motivations behind the political activities and philosophies of Putin’s government in Russia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Part intellectual history, part portrait gallery... \u003ci\u003eBlack Wind, White Snow\u003c\/i\u003e traces the background to Putin’s ideas with verve and clarity.” — Geoffrey Hosking, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Required reading. This is a vivid, panoramic history of bad ideas, chasing the metastasis of the doctrine known as Eurasianism... Reading Charles Clover will help you understand the world of lies and delusions that is Eurasia.” — Ben Judah, \u003ci\u003eStandpoint\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCharles Clover, award-winning journalist and former Moscow bureau chief for the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, analyzes the idea of \"Eurasianism,\" a theory of Russian national identity based on ethnicity and geography. Clover traces Eurasianism’s origins in the writings of white Russian exiles in 1920s Europe, through Siberia’s Gulag archipelago in the 1950s, the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, and up to its steady infiltration of the governing elite around Vladimir Putin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis eye-opening analysis pieces together the evidence for Eurasianism’s place at the heart of Kremlin thinking today and explores its impact on recent events, the annexation of Crimea, and the rise in Russia of anti-Western paranoia and imperialist rhetoric, as well as Putin’s sometimes perplexing political actions and ambitions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBased on extensive research and dozens of interviews with Putin’s close advisers, this quietly explosive story will be essential reading for anyone concerned with Russia’s past century, and its future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430167691500,"sku":"9780300268355","price":30.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780300268355.jpg?v=1774559614","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/black-wind-white-snow-by-charles-clover-9780300268355","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}