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First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia's President

Vladimir Putin

Paperback | Pages: 240 pages

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Title	:	First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia's President
Author	:	Vladimir Putin
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	May 9th 2000 by Public Affairs (first published 2000)
Categories	:	Cultural. Russia. Politics. Biography. Nonfiction. History. Autobiography. Memoir

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First Person is an intimate, candid portrait of the man who holds the future of Russia in his grip. An extraordinary compilation of over 24 hours of in-depth interviews and remarkable photographs, it delves deep into Putin's KGB past and explores his meteoric rise to power. No Russian leader has ever subjected himself to this kind of public examination of his life and views. Both as a spy and as a virtual political unknown until selected by Boris Yeltsin to be Prime Minister, Putin has been regarded as a man of mystery. Now, the curtain lifts to reveal a remarkable life of struggles and successes. Putin's life story is of major importance to the world.

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Original Title:	First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia's President Vladimir Putin
ISBN:	0091793785 (ISBN13: 9780091793784)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Vladimir Putin, Anatoly Sobchak, Lyudmila Putina, Yekaterina Putina, Maria Putina
Setting:	Saint Petersburg(Russian Federation) Dresden,1986(Germany) Moscow,1996(Russian Federation)

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Interesting interview with one of the most important and secretive leaders of our time

I rated this book 2 stars only because it was interesting, even on it's non-deep-diving surface. The book is clearly propaganda. It is a lie to call it a self-portrait. It's not written by Putin but by three sycophants who threw it together in 3 weeks. Putin's words about justice are scary when compared to his actions since this was written. Russia has no justice for the everyday Russian. Putin uses the justice system to punish his adversaries, both economic and political. And evidently part of

I reread this book all the time - amazing insight into Putin. A caveat: the authors only had 3 weeks to write and publish the book. That's why the editing is a bit shotty.

A brief but interesting book on Putin. This book is structured in a similar manner to Fidel Castro's "My Life", where the subject is interviewed on his life and the conversations serve as the biography.That being said, one of the immediate draw backs to the book is not so much what is said, but what is omitted. The president had a very interesting life, but it is described more often then not in very brief detail; one gets the feeling there was just enough discussed to introduce him to the world

I'm not sure about astonishingly frank; compared to Khrushchev, perhaps. Putin has an answer for everything, though the questions from these three journalists don't go all that searchingly deep. The most mysterious thing about Putin could be his meteoric rise from seemingly minor functionary to leader of Russia. He unquestionably had intelligence, savviness, a certain amount of ambition, he knew a few people, he was at the right place at the right time - does this explain it all? His resume

There seems to be a lot he is not saying in this book specially about his fast rise to power, but it is still a fun read and gives an idea of his world view and personality. I really enjoyed reading this.

I just started to read this book when the current Crimea/Ukraine event started to happen - call that serendipity? I am not quite done yet with this book but have gotten far enough along with it to make an evaluation. It is written in an interview-style of questions and answers which I found surprising. I would very much have preferred to read a book about him as an autobiography written in the first person rather then a kind of "interview and notes taken" approach. This made the book awkward to