Samuel Greene

Samuel Greene is director of King’s Russia Institute at King’s College London and author of Moscow in Movement: Power and Opposition in Putin’s Russia (2014).

October 2017, Volume 28, Issue 4

The Kremlin Emboldened: How Putin Wins Support

The Kremlin’s ability to maintain power and popularity despite an aging leader, an ailing economy, a rallying opposition, and many other domestic and international challenges is puzzling given current theories of authoritarianism. These theories focus on some combination of material interests, institutional engineering, and the charisma and skill of the dictator himself. A close examination…