LibGuides: NEH Institute: The United States and the Russian Federation, 2001-2008

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The United States and the Russian Federation, 2001-2008

Bibliography

Primary Sources

George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin, "President Bush's News Conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Kranj," 16 June 2001

Vladimir Putin, "Annual Address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation," 25 April 2005

Vladimir Putin, "Speech and the Following Discussion at the Munich Conference on Security Policy," 10 February 2007

Vladimir Putin, "Interview with Newspaper Journalists from G8 Member Countries," 4 June 2007

Secondary Sources

Richard Pipes, "Putin & Co.: What is to be Done?" Commentary (May 2008): 30-36.

The American Mission and the Evil Empire : The Crusade for a Free Russia since 1881 by David S. Foglesong
Call Number: E 183.8.S65 F64 2007 (3rd Floor)
Publication Date: 2007
David Foglesong tells the fascinating story of American efforts to liberate and remake Russia since the 1880s. He analyzes the involvement of journalists, political activists, propagandists, missionaries, diplomats, engineers, and others in this grand crusade, paying special attention to the influence of religious beliefs on Americans' sense of duty to emancipate, convert, or reform Russia.
The Man Without a Face : The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen
Call Number: DK 510.766.P87 G47 2013 (1st Floor)
Publication Date: 2013
A chilling and unflinching portrait of one of the most fearsome figures in world politics. In 1999, the "Family" surrounding Boris Yeltsin went looking for a successor to the ailing and increasingly unpopular president. Vladimir Putin, with very little governmental or administrative experience--he'd been deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, and briefly, director of the secret police--nevertheless seemed the perfect choice: a "faceless" creature whom Yeltsin and his cronies could mold in their own image. Russia and an infatuated West were determined to see in him the progressive leader of their dreams--even as Putin, with ruthless efficiency, dismantled the country's media, wrested control and wealth from the business class, and destroyed the fragile mechanisms of democracy.
The New Tsar : The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin by Steven Lee Myers
Call Number: DK 510.766.P87 M93 2015 (1st Floor)
Publication Date: 2015
"A riveting, immensely detailed biography of Putin that explains in full-bodied, almost Shakespearian fashion why he acts the way he does." -Robert D. Kaplan The New Tsar is the book to read if you want to understand how Vladimir Putin sees the world and why he has become one of the gravest threats to American security. The epic tale of the rise to power of Russia's current president--the only complete biography in English - that fully captures his emergence from shrouded obscurity and deprivation to become one of the most consequential and complicated leaders in modern history, by the former New York Times Moscow bureau chief.

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