Translation Rights TQE / Russians. Postcards from Putin's era

After the fall of the Soviet Union and the collapse of the economy during Boris Yeltsin, the world witnessed the birth of a new Russian leader: Vladimir Putin. While he held the country’s concentrated power in his hands, a series of tragedies took place that brought Russia to the centre of the news: submarine Kursk sinking, the massacres at a Moscow theatre and the Balsan school, the murders of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and former spy Alexander Litvinenko. Those were also the years of the dark rise of the Russian Oligarchs, the ever increasing rate of unpunished crime, and the war in Chechnya. Rusos is a voyage to the depths of a country that recovered the pride in itself, led by Putin.

Hinde Pomeraniec went to Moscow and London to find the reasons why an obscure spy became the charismatic leader that the West distrusts. The author interviewed direct witnesses, visited locations, and checked every detail about the new Russia. The result is a riveting and unprejudiced chronicle where there coexist compassion and fear, drama and farce.

Praise for Rusos:

“Russians is not only called to become a paradigm of its genre, but also a not-to-be missed book for the laborious act of understanding. No mean feat. That’s more than enough.” Clarín

“This is a well documented and useful work, worth rereading to pursue the knowledge of this fascinating society in which the czarists dynasties coexist. La capital