1st Edition
Putin's Olympics The Sochi Games and the Evolution of Twenty-First Century Russia
1. Introduction: How Putin’s Political System Led to Olympic Corruption, Military Adventurism and State-Sponsored Doping
2. The 2014 Sochi Olympic Mega-Project and Russia’s Political Economy
3. Political and Civil Society and the Sochi Olympics
4. Security: Fighting Terrorism and Strengthening the Military
5. International Issues: Circassians, the Former Soviet Countries, and the West
6. The Legacy of the Sochi Olympics
Biography
Robert W. Orttung is the Research Director of the Sustainability Collaborative and Associate Research Professor of International Affairs at The George Washington University, USA.
Sufian N. Zhemukhov is a Senior Research Associate at The George Washington University and Lecturer at The University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA.
.Putin’s Olympics rightly and repeatedly
reminds us that in the process of creating the Sochi experience, Putin, like his autocratic and
authoritarian predecessors, broke a lot of eggs in order to make this cake.Catherine A. Schuler, University of Maryland
