How to understand the rise of authoritarianism in Russia? How to explain that a good part of the Russian elites and population does not oppose the war that Vladimir Putin has unleashed in Ukraine? In his new book, The vertical of fear, Gilles Favarel-Garrigues, research director at the CNRS at the Center for International Studies and Research (CERI Science Po) puts forward a few leads. This specialist in contemporary Russia, who has been carrying out investigations there for 20 years, analyzes the way in which the Russian president governs by relying on the use of coercion.
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“The Vertical of Fear”, by Gilles Favarel-Garrigues
