Um livro que parece ser (pela crítica e entrevista ao autor) muito interessante acerca da Rússia de Putin. 

What Does Russia Look Like, Now? Expat Keith Gessen on His New Novel, Putin, and the Guy Worse Than Him in the White House

Now, in 2018, in terms of coffee, it’s amazing. There’s coffee everywhere. It’s lovely. But then you turn on the TV and it’s pure propaganda. Quality of life and political repression have moved in a chiasmatic pattern — the higher the quality of life, the lower the level of political freedoms. Which is of course exactly the opposite of what was predicted by modernization theory or the neoliberal consensus or whatever. So actually I’m not Tom Friedman. Because it turns out you can have cappuccinos and political repression.