Overview
From a Moscow correspondent forĀ The New Yorker, a groundbreaking portrait of modern Russia and the inner struggles of the people who sustain Vladimir Putinās rule
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND KIRKUS REVIEWS
In this rich and novelistic tour of contemporary Russia, Joshua Yaffa introduces readers to some of the countryās most remarkable figuresāfrom politicians and entrepreneurs to artists and historiansāwho have built their careers and constructed their identities in the shadow of the Putin system. Torn between their own ambitions and the omnipresent demands of the state, each walks an individual path of compromise. Some muster cunning and cynicism to extract all manner of benefits and privileges from those in power. Others, finding themselves to be less adept, are left broken and demoralized. What binds them together is the tangled web of dilemmas and contradictions they face.
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Between Two FiresĀ chronicles the lives of a number of strivers who understand that their dreams are bestāor onlyārealized through varying degrees of cooperation with the Russian government. With sensitivity and depth, Yaffa profiles the director of the countryās main television channel, an Orthodox priest at war with the church hierarchy, a Chechen humanitarian who turns a blind eye to persecutions, and many others. The result is an intimate and probing portrait of a nation that is much discussed yet little understood. By showing how citizens shape their lives around the demands of a capricious and frequently repressive stateāas often by choice as under threat of forceāYaffa offers urgent lessons about the true nature of modern authoritarianism.
Praise for Between Two Fires
āA deep and revealing portrait of life inside Vladimir Putinās Russia. . . . Yaffa mines a rich vein, describing his subjectsā moral compromises and often ingenious ways of engaging a crooked bureaucracy to show how the Kremlin sustains its authoritarianism.āāThe New York Times Book Review
āFew journalists have penetrated so deep and with so much nuance into the moral ambiguities of Russia. If you want insight into the deeper distortions the Kremlin causes in peopleās psyches this book is invaluable.āāPeter Pomerantsev, author ofĀ Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible
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āA stunning chronicle of Putinās new Russia . . . It celebrates the vitality of the Russian people even as it explores the compromises and accommodations that they must make. . . . This embrace of contradictions is what makesĀ Between Two FiresĀ such a poignant and poetic book.āāAlex Gibney,Ā Air Mail
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