(2022)
First Second,
2022 Series
Published in English
(United States)
- Price
- 28.99 USD; 38.99 CAD
- Pages
- 280
- On-sale Date
- 2022-11-16
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- First Second
- Brand
-
:01 First Second
- ISBN
-
978-1-250-76075-3
- Barcode
- 9781250760753 52899
- Printer
- Printed in Singapore
- Editing
- Mark Seigel (editor); Alex Lu (editor)
- Color
- color
- Dimensions
- 16 cm x 24 cm
- Binding
- hardcover
- Publishing Format
- graphic novel
Introduction
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 4 pages
- Script
- Andrew S. Weiss (credited)
- Pencils
- Box Brown (illustrations)
- Inks
- Box Brown (illustrations)
- Colors
- Box Brown (illustrations)
- Letters
- typeset
Chapter 1: Super Spy
comic story / 26 pages
- Script
- Andrew S. Weiss (credited)
- Pencils
- Box Brown (credited as Brian "Box" Brown)
- Inks
- Box Brown (credited as Brian "Box" Brown)
- Colors
- Box Brown (credited as Brian "Box" Brown)
- Letters
- Box Brown (credited as Brian "Box" Brown)
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Mikhail Gorbachev; Ronald Reagan; Vladimir Putin; Oleg Kalugin; Erich Honecker
- Synopsis
- The story of Vladimir Putin's unexceptional years in the KGB.
- Keywords
- Berlin Wall; counterintelligence; Dresden; East Germany; elevator shoes; Glasnost; Hungary; judo; KGB; Leningrad; Moscow; Perestroika; Poland; Russia; Stasi; Tiananmen Square
Chapter 2: Riding High
comic story / 28 pages
- Script
- Andrew S. Weiss (credited)
- Pencils
- Box Brown (credited as Brian "Box" Brown)
- Inks
- Box Brown (credited as Brian "Box" Brown)
- Colors
- Box Brown (credited as Brian "Box" Brown)
- Letters
- Box Brown (credited as Brian "Box" Brown)
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- George W. Bush; Vladimir Putin; Donald Trump; John McCain; Dick Cheney; Christopher Steele; Oleg Deripaska; Viktor Vekselberg; Andrew S. Weiss; Mikhail Fridman; Petr Aven; Sergei Chemezov; Mikhail Khodorkovsky; Nikolai Karamzin
- Synopsis
- Putin drifts from an ally of the United States to its harshest critic. An explanation of the sudden influx of wealth in Russia and the effects of Russia's feudal past which still informs the chain of command.
- Keywords
- 9-11; Afghanistan; CIAl Chechnya; Dresden; feudalism; FIFA World Cup; Georgia; Guatemala; Iraq; Kennebunkport; Kremlin; Kyrgyzstan; Moscow; Munich; Olympic Winter Games; Rostec; Rusi; Russia; Saudi Arabia; Ukraine; Uzbekistan; War on Terror; White House
Chapter 3: O Lucky Man!
comic story / 30 pages
- Script
- Andrew S. Weiss (credited)
- Pencils
- Box Brown (credited as Brian "Box" Brown)
- Inks
- Box Brown (credited as Brian "Box" Brown)
- Colors
- Box Brown (credited as Brian "Box" Brown)
- Letters
- Box Brown (credited as Brian "Box" Brown)
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Yuri Andropov; Leonid Brezhnev; Bill Clinton; Mikhail Gorbachev; Michael Jackson; Nikita Khruschev; Boris Yeltsin; Vladimir Putin; Andrew S. Weiss; Gleb Pavlovsky; Sergei Stepashin; Yevgeny Primakov; Yuri Luzhkov; Strobe Talbott; Tatyana Yeltsin; Valentin Yumashev; Anatoly Sobchak; Yuri Skuratov; Sandy Berger; Vladimir Lenin; Josef Stalin; Vasily Klyuchevsky; Napoleon Bonaparte; Ivan the Terrible
- Synopsis
- Putin is brought in by President Yeltsin to help save his political fortunes; few pay close attention to Putin's personal ambitions.
- Keywords
- Balkans Crisis; Chekist; FSB; Gosudarstvennik; Iran; Kremlin; Moscow; Russia; White House
Chapter 4: Into the Abyss
comic story / 70 pages
- Script
- Andrew S. Weiss (credited)
- Pencils
- Box Brown (credited as Brian "Box" Brown)
- Inks
- Box Brown (credited as Brian "Box" Brown)
- Colors
- Box Brown (credited as Brian "Box" Brown)
- Letters
- Box Brown (credited as Brian "Box" Brown)
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- George W. Bush; Bill Clinton; Barack Obama; Vladimir Putin; Slobodan Milosevic; Gene Sharp; Robert Helvey; Condoleezza Rice; Viktor Yanukovych; Viktor Yushchenko; Gleb Pavlovsky; George Soros; Leo Tolstoy; Aleksandr Torshin; Igor Sechin; Nikolai Patrushev; Vladimir Lenin; Xi Jinping; Sergei Naryshkin; Anatoly Sobchak; Vladimir Kumarin; Viktor Cherkesov; Gennady Timchenko
- Synopsis
- On how Putin views grassroots political movements as being instigated by the western world, thus justifying suppression of free speech.
- Keywords
- Arab Spring; Beslan; Color Revolutions; Dresden; Duma; Egypt; hockey; Iceland; jiu-jitsu; judo; Kazakhstan; KGB; Kremlin; Kyiv; Leningrad; mirror imaging; Moscow; Munich; Nashi; Orange Revolution; Russia; Serbia; St. Petersburg; Stasi; Tambov Gang; Ukraine
Chapter 5: Frontal Assault
comic story / 50 pages
- Script
- Andrew S. Weiss (credited)
- Pencils
- Box Brown (credited as Brian "Box" Brown)
- Inks
- Box Brown (credited as Brian "Box" Brown)
- Colors
- Box Brown (credited as Brian "Box" Brown)
- Letters
- Box Brown (credited as Brian "Box" Brown)
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Bill Clinton; Hillary Clinton; Nikita Khruschev; Barack Obama; Boris Yeltsin; Vladimir Putin; Dmitri Medvedev; Mike McFaul; Madonna; Lev Gudkov; Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Czar Nicholas I; Vladimir Lenin; Aleksandr Pushkin; Nikolai Gogol; Mikhail Lermontov; Aleksandr Herzen; Ivan Turgenev; Count von Benckendorff; Pyotr Chaadayev; Edward Snowden; Julian Assange; Angela Merkel; Billie Jean King; Viktor Yanukovych; Ruslana; Charlie Rose; John McCain
- Synopsis
- Within Russia, Putin uses misinformation and hacking to target opponents. These tactics are also brought out against the Ukraine and the United States.
- Keywords
- Anti-Americanism; autocracy; Black Sea; Crimea; Decembrists; Derzhavniki; Duma; European Union; FSB; GRU; homophobia; Internet Research Agency; Kremlin; Kyiv; Maidan; misinformation; Moscow; nationalism; NATO; orthodoxy; Pussy Riot; Russia; Russian Special Forces; Sochi; St. Petersburg; Third Department; Ukraine; Winter Olympic Games
Chapter 6: Feet of Clay
comic story / 38 pages
- Script
- Andrew S. Weiss (credited)
- Pencils
- Box Brown (credited as Brian "Box" Brown)
- Inks
- Box Brown (credited as Brian "Box" Brown)
- Colors
- Box Brown (credited as Brian "Box" Brown)
- Letters
- Box Brown (credited as Brian "Box" Brown)
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- J. Edgar Hoover; Barack Obama; Vladimir Putin; Henry Jackson; Donald Trump; Bernie Sanders; Michelle Obama; Oleg Kalugin; Konstantin Malofeyev; Nigel Farage; Alex Jones; Richard Spencer; George Soros; Marine le Pen; Alexander Dugin; Alain de Benoist; Franklin Graham; Steve King; Steven Seagal; Steve Bannon; Michael Flynn; Aleksandr Torshin; David Clarke; Maria Butina; Scott Walker; Julian Assange; Jill Stein; Sean Hannity; Michael Hayden; Volodymyr Zelenskyy; Fiona Hill; Angela Merkel
- Synopsis
- Putin exploits vulnerabilities in the United States to influence their 2016 presidential election but oversteps when his war against the Ukraine is stalled.
- Keywords
- AIDS; Anti-Nuclear Movement; CIA; Cuba; European Union; HIV; Iran; KGB; Kremlin; Kyiv; misinformation; Moscow; NATO; Russia; Russiagate; Taliban; trolls; Ukraine; useful idiots; White House; Wikileaks
Chapter 7: A Deeply Unsatisfying Ending
comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Andrew S. Weiss (credited)
- Pencils
- Box Brown (credited as Brian "Box" Brown)
- Inks
- Box Brown (credited as Brian "Box" Brown)
- Colors
- Box Brown (credited as Brian "Box" Brown)
- Letters
- Box Brown (credited as Brian "Box" Brown)
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Boris Yeltsin; Vladimir Putin; Lee Kuan Yew
- Synopsis
- The author interrogates what it might look like for Putin to remain in power into his 90s - and why the Kremlin is the safest place for him.
- Keywords
- hockey; judo; Kremlin; Russia; White House
Acknowledgments
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- Box Brown (credited as Brian "Box" Brown); Andrew S. Weiss (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
Afterword
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- Andrew S. Weiss (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
Editing
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Table of Contents
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1.
[Title Page and Credits]
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2.
Introduction
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3.
Chapter 1: Super Spy
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4.
Chapter 2: Riding High
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Chapter 3: O Lucky Man!
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Chapter 4: Into the Abyss
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Chapter 5: Frontal Assault
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8.
Chapter 6: Feet of Clay
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Chapter 7: A Deeply Unsatisfying Ending
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Bibliography
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Acknowledgments
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12.
Afterword
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