Putin’s rise to power, his psychology and work as a dictator, is compared to Mao, Napoleon, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Ataturk.
Putin’s main lieutenants are individually compared to a lieutenant of one of the other dictators: Igor Sechin & Hitler’s Martin Bormann; Dmitry Medvedev & Ataturk’s Ismet Inonu or Mao’s Zhou Enlai; Mikhail Mishustin & Napoleon’s Jean-Jacques Cambaceres; Sergei Shoigu & Hitler’s Hermann Goering; Victor Zolotov & Napoleon’s General Anne Jean Marie Savary; Evgeni Prigozhin & Hitler’s Ernst Roehm; Sergei Kiriyenko & Hitler’s Ribbentrop or Mao’s Deng Xiaoping; Andrey Belousov & Hitler’s Albert Speer; General Gerasimov & Napoleon’s General Berthier or Hitler’s Field Marshall Keitel; Alexei Dyumin & Stalin’s Nikita Khrushchev. Finally, Putin’s future is assessed and compared to the other dictators, and his possible successors are evaluated and compared in this new book from Jeff Schubert.