Inside Putin's Russia: Can There Be Reform without Democracy?

Written by Andrew Jack, the Moscow Bureau Chief of the Financial Times, and featuring a new preface and conclusion for the U.S. edition, here is a revealing look at the meteoric rise of Vladimir Putin and his first term as president of Russia. Drawing on interviews with Putin himself, and with a number of the country's leading figures, as well as many ordinary Russians, Jack describes how the former KGB official emerged from the shadows of the Soviet secret police and lowly government jobs to be…