Jan 20, 2024 // In “The Wizard of the Kremlin,” Giuliano da Empoli writes a fictitious, narrative and political account of life as a Kremlin insider. While the storytelling is superb, the Putin that is presented fits too neatly with what readers would expect, writes Joshua C. Huminski.
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‘You can’t escape your fate, and Russia’s fate is to be governed by the descendants of Ivan the Terrible. Invent whatever you like proletarian revolution, unbridled liberalism but the result is always the same.”