Vladimir Putin

The World's Most Dangerous Man?

James Greensmith

• Publisher: Pen & Sword History
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781399043144
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Military Biographies
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Get inside the mind of Putin and discover what makes this ruthless, brutal, and amoral dictator tick. Following the celebrations of the Millennium and our entry into the 21st century, it was to be hoped that the days when a brutal dictator could bring mindless death and destruction to another country, and even to his own people, were over, and that the lessons of the past had been well and truly learned. A forlorn hope, as it transpires, for yet another monster has raised its ugly head above the slimy cesspit which such monsters inhabit, one to rival those of the past such as Stalin, Hitler, and Pol Pot. For now, we have Vladimir Putin, a depraved, deranged, warmongering megalomaniac who threatens the peace of the entire planet. In former times the appropriate description of Putin would have been 'evil'; 'a monster'; 'the Devil incarnate'; 'ghoulish', 'an excrescence', etc, but we no longer live in the Middle Ages and such appellations no longer suffice. And anyway, what adjective exists to describe a person who has no respect for human life? In their place we have the terminology of modern-day psychiatry. So, is it possible to get inside the mind of Putin and discover what makes this ruthless, brutal, and amoral dictator 'tick'? The answer is 'Yes', but it is not to be found in any textbook of psychiatry. Instead, the clues are to be found in a scientific paper, published by a female psychiatrist as long ago as the year 1997, and in the known side effects of the illness from which he is currently suffering. A new and unique insight is now offered into the mind of Putin, one which has not previously been advanced.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Author’s Note
• Chapter 1 Putin’s Account of his Childhood
• Chapter 2 Vera Putina tells a Different Story
• Chapter 3 The Murders of Artyom Borovik and Antonio Russo
• Chapter 4 Putin’s Account of his Schooldays
• Chapter 5 The Pieces of the Jigsaw Fall Into Place
• Chapter 6 The Truth about Putin’s Early Life: Summary
• Chapter 7 Timeline of Putin’s Disrupted Childhood
• Chapter 8 The Importance of a Happy and Stable Childhood
• Chapter 9 Leningrad University: Onwards and Upwards!
• Chapter 10 The Origins of Russia: How the Soviet Union Came into Being
• Chapter 11 Putin’s ‘Turn of the Millennium Speech’: December 1999
• Chapter 12 Putin’s Munich Speech, 10 February 2007
• Chapter 13 The Russo-Georgian War: August 2008
• Chapter 14 Putin’s Crimea Speech, 18 March 2014
• Chapter 15 The Annexation of Crimea by Russia: February/March 2014
• Chapter 16 Putin: Speech to the Munich Conference on Security Policy, 27 March 2014
• Chapter 17 Putin’s Valdai Speech, 24 October 2014
• Chapter 18 Putin’s Inaugural Presidential Speeches: 2000 to 2018
• Chapter 19 The Murder of Putin’s Critics
• Chapter 20 Putin’s Article, ‘On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians’, 2021
• Chapter 21 NATO and the Warsaw Pact
• Chapter 22 Putin: NATO and the UN
• Chapter 23 ‘Russia-Ukraine War, ‘No Other Option’: Excerpts of Putin’s speech declaring war, 24 February 2022
• Chapter 24 Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, 24 February 2022
• Chapter 25 Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill: ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’
• Chapter 26 Putin and Empathy
• Chapter 27 Putin the Borderline
• Chapter 28 Putin the Psychopath
• Chapter 29 Putin the Narcissist
• Chapter 30 Putin and DARVO!
• Chapter 31 Putin’s Thought Processes: Inside the Mind of a Madman
• Chapter 32 New Light on Putin’s Health
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Plates Section