About a Boy: The Story of Vladimir Putin

2.10.2023

About a Boy: The Story of Vladimir Putin

0:00

3:15

In the West, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is always seen as one of two things: KGB spy or judo master. But to anyone who’s ever lived in the Soviet Union, Putin is something else entirely: a street kid. Join journalist Julia Ioffe as she explores how Putin’s childhood taught him lessons that shape his thinking and actions to this day.

Więcej odcinków z kanału "About a Boy: The Story of Vladimir Putin"

Chapter 5: All the World’s a Dvor
25.10.2023
42:52
To predict what Vladimir Putin might do next in Ukraine, it’s helpful to remember his first and foremost education — in the dvor.
Chapter 4: The Big Brother
18.10.2023
33:17
Organized crime and violence reign supreme in post-Soviet Russia. In this world, the rules of the dvor prove invaluable — for the men fighting over the jewels of the Soviet industrial empire, and for Vladimir Putin.
Nie przegap odcinka z kanału “About a Boy: The Story of Vladimir Putin”! Subskrybuj bezpłatnie w aplikacji GetPodcast.
Chapter 3: The Punk
11.10.2023
31:01
Putin grows up as a small, scrawny kid in a poor neighborhood with few ways up. Enter judo and the KGB.
Chapter 2: The Rat
4.10.2023
23:52
Soviet baby boomers are born into a country ravaged by war. Given that parents are largely absent — either dead, traumatized, or working to make ends meet – children spend most of their time in the dvor, the urban courtyard. The dvor is Vladimir Putin’s world.
Chapter 1: The Ghosts
4.10.2023
27:56
The Soviet Union suffers unthinkable horrors during World War II. Leningrad, the city into which Vladimir Putin is born, loses more than a million of its citizens to starvation, and Vladimir Putin’s parents barely make it out alive.
About a Boy: The Story of Vladimir Putin
2.10.2023
3:15
In the West, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is always seen as one of two things: KGB spy or judo master. But to anyone who’s ever lived in the Soviet Union, Putin is something else entirely: a street kid. Join journalist Julia Ioffe as she explores how Putin’s childhood taught him lessons that shape his thinking and actions to this day.

Odkrywaj najlepsze podcasty dzięki bezpłatnej aplikacji GetPodcast.

Subskrybuj ulubione podcasty, słuchaj odcinków offline i sprawdzaj najlepsze polecane podcasty.

Polityka prywatności
Informacja prawna
Polska

Firma z

About a Boy: The Story of Vladimir Putin