Status Updates From Putin's Wars: The Rise of R...

This book is pulling no punches. Putin's Russia is an ultranationalist imperialist empire bent on self-aggrandisement and Van Herpen has alllll the receipts. My favourite kind of academic text: informative, clear, and short, with flashes of ironic humour and no nonsense at all.

Came for the recent history, stating for the fantastically clear and concise academic analysis of Russian Imperial ambitions and distinctives from Ivan III to Putin