Dergiler / Kafkasya Çalışmaları / 2018 / Cilt: 3 - Sayı: 6

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]

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

Sayfa
327–328
DOI
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Özet

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

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.

Anahtar kelimeler: Sochi Olympics, Russia, mega-projects, corruption, surveillance