We Need to Talk About Putin

In fewer than 150 pithy pages, Galeotti sketches a bleak, but convincing picture of the man in the Kremlin and the political system that he dominates.

The Times

Dynamic, authoritative and often witty

The Scotsman

Fantastic

Nihal Athanayake, BBC Radio 5 Live

Mark Galeotti, in We Need to Talk About Putin, has distilled a great deal of research and thought into a slim and engaging volume that reads like a primer for anyone poised to enter a negotiation with the Russian president.

The Guardian

Easily the shrewdest and most insightful analysis yet of Putin’s policymaking.

Foreign Affairs

Punchy and highly readable

Times Literary Supplement

One of the most knowledgeable and dispassionate observers of contemporary Russia

Rachel Polonsky, author of 'Molotov's Magic Lantern'

The pre-eminent expert of Russian mafia

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Dynamic, authoritative and often witty

The Scotsman

Easily the shrewdest and most insightful analysis yet of Putin’s policymaking.

Foreign Affairs

Fantastic.

Nihal Arthanayake, BBC Radio 5 Live

In fewer than 150 pithy pages, Galeotti sketches a bleak, but convincing picture of the man in the Kremlin and the political system that he dominates.

The Times

Mark Galeotti, in We Need to Talk About Putin, has distilled a great deal of research and thought into a slim and engaging volume that reads like a primer for anyone poised to enter a negotiation with the Russian president.

The Guardian

Punchy and highly readable

TLS