Book Review - Putin's Olympics: The Sochi Games and the Evolution of Twenty-First Century Russia [Kitap Değerlendirmesi - Putin'in Olimpiyatları: Soçi Oyunları ve Yirmibirinci Yüzyıl Rusyası'nın Evrimi]

Year 2018, Volume: 3 Issue: 6, 327 - 328, 19.06.2018

Urban Jakša

Abstract

Robert W. Orttung ve Sufian N. Zhemukhov’un Putin'in Olimpiyatları: Soçi Oyunları ve Yirmibirinci Yüzyıl Rusyası'nın Evrimi kitabının değerlendirmesi

Keywords

Sochi Olympics, Russia, mega-projects, corruption, surveillance

Book Review - Putin's Olympics: The Sochi Games and the Evolution of Twenty-First Century Russia

Abstract

Robert W. Orttung and
Sufian N. Zhemukhov’s book Putin's Olympics: The Sochi Games and the Evolution
of Twenty-First Century Russia presents a concise yet dense overview of how the
games designed to symbolize Russia’s return to great power status have
ultimately failed to do so due to large-scale corruption, subsequent aggression
against Ukraine, and the doping scandal that have become the true legacies of
the games. Their analysis of Kremlin’s mega-project strikes a good balance
between looking in detail at the different aspects of Sochi Olympics (political
economy, civil society, security) and weaving them together into a comprehensive,
coherent narrative. 

Keywords

Sochi Olympics, Russia, mega-projects, corruption, surveillance

References

• Orttung, Robert W., and Sufian N. Zhemukhov. Putin's Olympics: The Sochi Games and the Evolution of Twenty-first Century Russia. Vol. 109. Taylor & Francis, 2017.