Offers a powerful new explanation of why Putin succeeded in reviving Russia from the wreckage of the 1990s~Shows how the memorialization of World War II in all aspects of Russian life has helped Putin stitch the country back together~Transports readers from far eastern Siberia to Moscow to Crimea in a series of elegantly written chapters~First book by a major reporter who has been on the Russia beat for over a decade~Offers the most incisive account to date of the war in East Ukraine