a concise and readable history both of how navalny came to be who he was and how he has shaped putin into what he is too. nothing super surprising but I wasn’t familiar with all of the twists and turns or his really early activism (as a shareholder of Russian state owned corporations advocating for higher dividends).

it’s a little quick to excuse his nationalist ties, though they are fairly considered overall. it would have been a better book if it had included some more perspectives from anti-establishment activists in Russia that are excluded from nationalistic visions. I should find a book about the Caucasus.