Author: William J. Dobson [1]

Harvill Secker, New York, 2012, pp. 341

Former editor of Foreign Affairs [2] and Foreign Policy [3] assesses the nature of various contemporary authoritarian regimes and discusses unarmed resistance. Chapter 1 ‘The Czar’ analyses the Putin regime including its control over the media; Chapter 2 ‘Enemies of the State’ gives prominence to a campaign to preserve the Khimki forest and the effectiveness of tactics used.