{"id":4097,"date":"2021-11-18T12:11:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T12:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=4097"},"modified":"2021-11-18T12:13:43","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T12:13:43","slug":"best-books-of-2021-financial-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2021\/11\/18\/best-books-of-2021-financial-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Best books of 2021: Financial Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Morvan Lallouet&#8217;s book Navalny makes the prestigious Financial Times best book of the year list! <\/p>\n<p>Morvan Lallouet&#8217;s title published this summer on the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, has been chosen as one of the Financial Times books of the year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Who is Alexei Navalny? Poisoned in August<br \/>\n2020 and transported to Germany for<br \/>\ntreatment, the politician returned to Russia in<br \/>\nJanuary 2021 in the full glare of the world<br \/>\nmedia. His immediate detention at passport<br \/>\ncontrol set the stage for an explosive<br \/>\nshowdown with Vladimir Putin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8216;Alexei Navalny, who was imprisoned earlier this year, is the most dangerous political opponent to take on Vladimir Putin, during the Russian leader\u2019s more than 20 years in power.&#8217; reads the review &#8216;Despite his extraordinary courage, Navalny has attracted his share of critics \u2014 from both the liberal left and the nationalist right. This book is a fair-minded and comprehensive guide to a man who may yet play a major role in the future of Russia.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Morvan!<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hurstpublishers.com\/book\/navalny\/\">Navalny: Putin&#8217;s Nemesis, Russia&#8217;s Future?<\/a> <\/em>was co-authored with Jan-Matti Dollbaum from the University of Bremen, and Ben Noble, from UCL-SSEES.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full Financial Times list <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/13e77e22-8815-4721-930f-8b94351c4b29\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morvan Lallouet&#8217;s book Navalny makes the prestigious Financial Times best book of the year list! Morvan Lallouet&#8217;s title published this summer on the Russian opposition &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2021\/11\/18\/best-books-of-2021-financial-times\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66395,"featured_media":3857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4097"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4100,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions\/4100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}