"Rule by Strongmen: A Biography of Vladimir Putin" is a comprehensive record of Putin's personal experience and his career in power. The author Angus Roxborough is a well-known British journalist who once worked for the BBC. During the Cold War, while serving as a correspondent for the "Sunday Times" in Moscow, he was expelled from the Soviet Union as a spy. In 2006, he accidentally became the press consultant of the Putin government and was able to observe Putin and Russia under his rule closely for three years.
"Rule by a Strong Man: The Biography of Vladimir Putin" uses first-hand interview materials to comprehensively record and interpret how the Russian leader, who once served in the KGB, rose to the peak of power step by step; how he "wooed" the West in the early days of his tenure to become more and more fearful in Westerners with his increasingly tough posture; how to restore national strength through economic reforms and allow Russians to regain their confidence as a great power; how to use an iron fist to suppress domestic oligarchs, purge the news media, and build an effective national governance machine.
