{"id":17101,"date":"2024-12-11T14:35:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T12:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/?p=17101"},"modified":"2024-12-11T14:35:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T12:35:57","slug":"the-wizard-of-the-kremlin-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/the-wizard-of-the-kremlin-a-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wizard of the Kremlin \u2013 A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Giouliano Da Empoli. <em>The Wizard of the Kremlin \u2013 A Novel<\/em>. Translated from the French by Willard Wood. New York: Other Press. 2023\/2022. pp. 285.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<em>\u039f \u039c\u03ac\u03b3\u03bf\u03c2 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u039a\u03c1\u03b5\u03bc\u03bb\u03af\u03bd\u03bf\u03c5. <\/em>\u039c\u03b5\u03c4\u03ac\u03c6\u03c1\u03b1\u03c3\u03b7 \u03c3\u03c4\u03b1 \u0395\u03bb\u03bb\u03b7\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03ac, \u03a4\u03bf\u03cd\u03bb\u03b1 \u03a4\u03cc\u03bb\u03b9\u03b1. 2023. \u0391\u03b8\u03ae\u03bd\u03b1: \u039a\u03ad\u03b4\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Filled with real political insight and intrigue, this thrilling novel explores the nature of power through the inner workings of Putin\u2019s regime.<\/strong><br><br>Known as the \u201cWizard of the Kremlin,\u201d the enigmatic Vadim Baranov was a TV producer before becoming a political advisor to Putin, aka \u201cThe Czar.\u201d After his resignation from this position, legends about him multiply, with no one able to distinguish truth from fiction. Until one night, when he tells his story to the narrator of this book\u2026<br><br>He immerses us in the heart of the Russian state, where sycophants and oligarchs have been engaging in open warfare, and where Vadim, now the regime\u2019s main spin doctor, turns an entire country into an avant-garde political stage. Yet Vadim is not as ambitious as the others. Entangled in the increasingly dark secrets of the regime he has helped create, he will do anything to get out, guided by the memory of his grandfather, an eccentric aristocrat who survived the Revolution, and the mesmerizing, merciless Ksenia, whom he has fallen in love with.<br><br>Giuliano da Empoli, once a senior advisor to Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi, draws on his experience behind the scenes to create an authentic, compelling portrait of power and how it corrupts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giouliano Da Empoli. The Wizard of the Kremlin \u2013 A Novel. Translated from the French by Willard Wood. New York: Other Press. 2023\/2022. pp. 285. (\u039f \u039c\u03ac\u03b3\u03bf\u03c2 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u039a\u03c1\u03b5\u03bc\u03bb\u03af\u03bd\u03bf\u03c5. \u039c\u03b5\u03c4\u03ac\u03c6\u03c1\u03b1\u03c3\u03b7 \u03c3\u03c4\u03b1 \u0395\u03bb\u03bb\u03b7\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03ac, \u03a4\u03bf\u03cd\u03bb\u03b1 \u03a4\u03cc\u03bb\u03b9\u03b1. 2023. \u0391\u03b8\u03ae\u03bd\u03b1: \u039a\u03ad\u03b4\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2.) Filled with real political insight and intrigue, this thrilling novel explores the nature of power through the inner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-20","category-proposals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17103,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17101\/revisions\/17103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}