The Successor: Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Putin, and the Death of Russian Democracy
Nemtsov was once Yeltsin likely successor and was shot within sight of the Kremlin in 2015. Fishman uses that career to trace how Russia turned.
Fishman uses the career of Boris Nemtsov, once Yeltsin likely successor and shot within sight of the Kremlin in 2015, to trace Russia step-by-step passage from partial democracy to autocracy. The biography carries the argument: each stage of the closing is visible in what happened to one man who kept expecting the old rules to hold.
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Tyler Cowen
One of the best books to read on how Russia moved from “had some democratic elements in place” to autocracy, on a step-by-step basis. The story is told using the career of Boris Nemtsov, who was assassinated in 2014, as a lens.
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