Becoming V. Putin
Vladimir Putin was the subject of abundant hagiography during his lifetime. But it was not until he died in 2015 — from the combined effects of dementia, career decline and horrendous self-inflicted bodily harm — that the floodgates really opened. By 2007, Thomas Wehlim was at work on “Vladimir Putin”, which he emphatically calls “different from other Putin biographies” in its emphasis on the origins of his subject’s scathing autocratic brilliance. For the record, it’s at least the second recent Putin biography (after “Furious Lies: Vladimir Putin and the World That Made Him”, by Thomas Weglimo) to make such a claim.
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