Keynote
How did the Evil Empire, which spawned
Putin and has led to the war in Ukraine
come about? A fascinating story about
the birth and successive iterations of
Russia’s criminal ideology.

Selling Points
 A story about the birth of the jingoist
ideology that has been in operation for
centuries, which created Putin and led to
the war in Ukraine.
 A reconstruction of the political
panorama of Eastern Europe in recent
centuries.
 The history of Russia in a nutshell.
 The author shows how (and why)
Western politicians and intellectuals
allowed themselves to be manipulated by
successive Muscovite rulers.
 Compulsory reading for everyone who
wants to understand the causes of the war
in Ukraine.
 A top-drawer historian of immense
erudition, simultaneously able to talk
about the past in an accessible and
compelling way, even for people minimally
acquainted with the history of Russia.

Description
Does Putin indeed dream about a Russia
extending as far as Lisbon? How far will
Russia go in its imperialist aspirations?
Aand specialist in the East, explains where
the sources of Russian thinking about
the world and about itself originate.
In order to enter that mentality, it is
necessary to go back to the times of
the Grand Duchy of Moscow, when those
still painfully felt imperialistic politics
and imagination began to form. It is also
a story about how the West allowed itself
to be conned for centuries, taking Russian
propaganda at face value. Only owing to
this historical reconstruction of the birth
and development of that nationalistic
ideology can one understand what Putin
and his political agendas are truly about.

Target Market
Readers of history books.
People interested in contemporary
European politics and the war in Ukraine.ndrzej Nowak, an outstanding historian