RaveWashington MonthlySearing and deeply personal ... Bennetts’s book details Russia’s political devolution on a terrifyingly grander and more violent scale—one with no apparent hope of Putin ever conceding any future election or, for that matter, any power. Bennetts argues compellingly that Putin cultivated a national character of \'cynicism and apathy, as well as an acceptance of violence\' ... Passionate, heartbreaking.
