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    War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance

    Mikhail Zygar

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    'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the fascism of 2022. It is time to expose them.' Drawing from his perilous career investigating the frontiers of the Russian empire, Zygar reveals how 350 years of propaganda, bad historical scholarship, folk tales and fantasy spurred his nation into war with Ukraine.

    A noted expert on the Kremlin with unparalleled access to hundreds of players in the current conflict - from politicians to oligarchs, gangsters to comedians (not least Zelensky himself) - Zygar chronicles the power struggles from which today's politics grew, and digs out the essential truths from behind layers of seductive legend. By surveying the strange, complex record of Russo-Ukrainian relations, WAR AND PUNISHMENT reveals exactly how the largest nation on Earth lost its senses. A work of history can't undo the past or transform the present, but sometimes it can shape the future.

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    Praise for War and Punishment

    • A sweeping, ambitious and impassioned chronicle . . . It's a fiery, informed reckoning of past and present relations . . . A bold prediction from a brave writer - Irish TimesIt is just possible to dream that, one day, WAR AND PUNISHMENT will be taught in Russian schools in place of the Kremlin's deadly lies - Oliver BulloughExcellent . . . While other recent works sympathetic to the Ukrainian cause elide over the epic corruption there, Zygar is clear that before Zelensky was elected Ukraine was near to being a failed state - Sunday TimesOne of those important thinkers who helps us to not lose our memory and, thus, our heads[Zygar] seeks to demolish, myth by myth, the "imperial mindset" that led to the current conflict . . . A fine book - ObserverKnowing he could always follow many colleagues and activists into jail, hospital, or into the graveyard, Zygar persists - CNNA searing mix of history and self-reflection - Peter Pomerantsev, author of THIS IS NOT PROPAGANDA

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    Mikhail Zygar

    Mikhail Zygar

    Mikhail Zygar is a journalist and filmmaker, and the founding editor-in-chief of Dozhd, Russia's last independent TV news channel. He is also the author of a number of books, including ALL THE KREMLIN'S MEN (2017), a critical portrait of Putin's inner circle that was a number-one bestseller in Russia. In 2014 he received the International Press Freedom Award. As soon as the invasion of Ukraine began, Zygar wrote a public condemnation that was signed by hundreds of his cultural and journalistic contacts and then by thousands of ordinary citizens. A new law criminalizing criticism of the war swiftly followed, and Zygar went into exile.

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