AfascinatingaccountofRussia’sfamousdissidentandthepoliticsheembodies.WhoisAlexeiNavalny?PoisonedinAugust2020andtransportedtoGermanyfortreatment,thepoliticianreturnedtoRussiainJanuary2021inthefullglareoftheworldmedia.HisimmediatedetentionatpassportcontrolsetthestageforanexplosiveshowdownwithVladimirPutin.ButNavalnymeansverydifferentthingstodifferentpeople.Tosome,heisademocratichero.Toothers,heisbetrayingtheMotherland.Toothersstill,heisadangerousnationalist.ThisbookexploresthemanydimensionsofNavalny’spoliticallife,fromhispioneeringanti-corruptioninvestigationstohisideasandleadershipofapoliticalmovement.ItalsolooksathowhisactivitiesandtheKremlin’sstrategieshaveshapedoneanother.Navalnymakessenseofthisdivisivecharacter,revealingthecontradictionsofamanwhoisthesecondmostimportantpoliticalfigureinRussia--evenwhenbehindbars.InordertounderstandmodernRussia,youneedtounderstandAlexeiNavalny.
