Putin Goes to War In their book "Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century", published six months before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Daniel Treisman and Sergei Guriev develop the concept of "spin dictatorship," which they claim has replaced the classical 20th century dictatorship based on fear and repression. Putin's regime of the 2000s and early 2010s has been both a trigger and a key example for this theory.

The West is paying for the war in Ukraine by slowing down GDP to the point of threatening recession, high inflation, rising debt prices and cold homes, while the Russian economy has not collapsed under the blows of sanctions, World Bank experts admit. The whole world is suffering from the war and the associated energy crisis: the estimate for global economic growth in 2023 has been lowered from 3% in June to 2.4%.

Putin goes to war In his book “Dictators of Deception: a new face of tyranny in the 21st century”, which went out of the press six months before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Daniel Traisman and Sergey Guriev are developing the concept of “manipulative dictatorship”, which came, as they say, in the 21st century, the classical dictatorship of fear and repressions of the 20th century. The Putin regime of the 2000s and the early 2010s served as an impetus and a key example for this theory.