Join Georgetown's Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies for a book talk with Sergey Aleksashenko, a former top Russian finance official and private businessman, on his book "Putin's Counterrevolution." In the book, Aleksashenko argues that during his nearly twenty years at the center of Russian political power, Vladimir Putin has transformed the country in many ways, and that the near-chaos of the early post-Soviet years has been replaced by an increasingly rigid authoritarianism, resembling a hard-fisted monarchy more than the previous communist dictatorship. Aleksashenko lays the blame for these changes squarely on Putin himself. A light reception will follow the talk. RSVP is requested. 

Speaker:

Sergey Aleksashenko, nonresident senior fellow in Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution