Vladimir Putin's Russia: Past, present & future
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Day 632. During the Ukraine: the latest team's recent trip to the United States, David Knowles sat down with Dr Leon Aron, writer, historian and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
Dr Aron was born in Moscow, and came to the US from the former Soviet Union as a child as a refugee in 1978. In this interview we hear about his research into the cultural development of modern Russia, and look at the transformation of Russian politics and society under Vladimir Putin.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter.
Dr Leon Aron (Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute). @AronRTTT on Twitter.
Riding the Tiger: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the Uses of War, by Leon Aron: https://www.aei.org/research-products/book/riding-the-tiger/
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:02.0 | Podcasts. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm David Knowles. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm David Knowles and this is a special episode of Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:15.0 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable |
| 0:20.0 | hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:25.0 | If we give President Zelensky the tools, the Ukrainians will finish the job. |
| 0:30.0 | Slava Ukrainian. |
| 0:32.0 | Nobody is going the break us. |
| 0:34.0 | We're trodden. |
| 0:35.0 | Where Ukraine is. |
| 0:38.0 | Last month I had the pleasure of speaking to Dr. Leon Aaron, writer, historian, and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:45.0 | Aaron was born in Moscow and came to the US from the former Soviet Union as a child refugee in 1978. |
| 0:51.0 | We spoke about the transformation of Russian politics and society under |
| 0:54.7 | Vladimir Putin and about his new book, Riding the Tiger, Vladimir Putin's Russia and the uses |
| 1:00.2 | of war. Here is our conversation. I'm Leon Aaron and I am a refugee from the Soviet Union. |
| 1:09.0 | I came to the US in 1978. I received my PhD from Columbia University in 1985 and pretty much been working |
| 1:18.0 | on then the Soviet Union and then Russia since about 88-89, published three books and the fourth one is titled |
| 1:26.2 | Writing the Tiger Vladimir Putin's Russia in the uses of war. And as a writer I think |
| 1:31.8 | the ultimate value of the book is what it is that you discover yourself. |
| 1:35.0 | And actually, this probably has nothing to do. |
| 1:37.0 | Well, it does not have immediate relevance, but I think it has a great deal of relevance for the future of Russia. |
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