revenge: how putin created the most menacing regime in the world

Michael Thumann has been reporting from Eastern Europe for the leading German intellectual weekly Die Zeit for over 25 years. His book chronicles Russia’s descent into an increasingly totalitarian dictatorship and the path leading to the escalation of Putin’s imperialist war in 2022. The dictator and his entourage want to take revenge for the democratic opening after 1991 and supposed humiliation by the West. Putin’s rule is becoming more radical. It is the most threatening regime in the world.

MMichael Thumann is foreign policy correspondent for Die Zeit and lives in Moscow. He already came to know Russia during his student days, at Moscow State University. He has been reporting for Die Zeit from Eastern Europe and the Middle East since the 1990s. He is author of numerous articles, podcasts, and best-selling books about Russia as a multinational state and Putin’s new nationalism.