Downfall
Putin, Prigozhin, and the fight for the future of Russia
$25.12
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
23 September 2025
Summary
The compelling, first-to-market story of the rise, fall and death of the Wagner Group’s Yevgeny Prigozhin, and what this tells us about the chaotic new direction of late Putinism, by the acclaimed author of A Short History of Russia.
In the early years of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, Yevgeny Prigozhin emerged as one of the President’s most trusted assets. By 2023, he had become a dangerous warlord – and also one of Putin’s chief rivals in Russia’s tumultuous political climate, ex…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529927382 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1529927382 |
| Author: | Anna Arutunyan, Mark Galeotti |
| Publisher: | Ebury Publishing |
| Imprint: | Ebury Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 23 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 194g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 17mm |
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[Mark Galeotti and Anna Arutunyan] have penned not only a deeply interesting biography of Prigozhin, but also a penetrating account of Russia under Putin. Downfall is as much a biography of a system as a biography of a man. * Joshua Huminski, Diplomatic Courier *
A year after the failed uprising of Yevgeny Prigozhin and the mercenaries of the Wagner Company against the regime led by President Vladimir Putin, a book written by two of the greatest experts on Russia makes the biography of this character as violent as it is complex. * Radio France Internationale *
About The Author
Anna Arutunyan
Anna Arutunyan is a Russia-American journalist, analyst and author. Born in Moscow, she was raised and educated in the United States before returning to Russia as a journalist. She covered two decades of Russian politics, first as reporter and editor at The Moscow News, then as a correspondent and analyst. She has served as Russia’s senior analyst for the International Crisis Group, and only left Russia after the February 2022 invasion. She has a wide range of contacts in Russian politics and business and worked on the ground in both Crimea and the Donbas after the outbreak of the undeclared conflict in 2014. She is now Associate Director of the consultancy Mayak Intelligence and a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center. Her articles have appeared regularly in USA Today, Foreign Affairs, and other publications worldwide. She is the author of several books on Russia, including The Putin Mystique (Skyscraper), translated into over a dozen languages, and the latest on Russia’s war in Ukraine, Hybrid Warriors- Proxies, Freelancers and Moscow’s Struggle for Ukraine (Hurst).
Mark Galeotti is one of the world’s leading experts on Russian crime and security (which are often one and the same), which may explain why Moscow banned him in 2022. After a stint with the Foreign Office, he has been a scholar and think-tanker in London, New York, Moscow, Prague and Florence. He now heads the consultancy Mayak Intelligence and is an honorary professor at University College London and a senior fellow with RUSI and the Council on Geostrategy. A prolific author, he frequently acts as consultant to various government, commercial and law-enforcement agencies and has briefed everyone from prime ministers to CEOs.
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