1. Putin and his times From kommunalka to the Kremlin; The many Putins; The post-Cold War context; The democracy paradox 2. State, society and regime The birth of the regime-state; The meta-factions of Russian society; The dual state and neo-patrimonialism; Reform, transition and beyond 3. Putin and politics The state of exception and regionalism; Putin and the past; Anti-revolution as a political practice; Putin’s statecraft; Stasis, or the developmental impasse 4. Politics and the third state Regime reset; The third state and meta-corruption; The third state and micro-factionalism 5. Managed capitalism State and market; Economic performance and plans; Powering Putinism; Sanctions and their effect 6. From partner to adversary: Russia and the West The clash of post-Cold War world orders; The logic of Russian foreign policy; A new era of confrontation 7. Recreating the heartland: Eurasian partnerships Eurasian integration in perspective; The post-Atlantic world;Putin’s Asian gambit: escape from confrontation? Global Russia 8. The winds of change Towards Putin’s fourth term;The return of politics; The 2018 presidential election; Challenges of Putin’s fourth term 9. The Putin phenomenon Putin’s people and power; Is Putin an ism?; Putin’s grand strategy 10. Paradoxes of Putinism When success means failure; Towards the succession; Russia without Putin Bibliography Index