Leon Aron

Leon Aron is the director of Russian studies at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of, among other works, Yeltsin: A Revolutionary Life and Roads to the Temple: Memory, Truth, Ideas, and Ideals in the Making of the Russian Revolution 1987–1991.

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Response · March 20, 2017
The Putin Anomaly
By Leon Aron
In modern European history, Vladimir Putin is the first classically reactionary and even revanchist leader who is not, or at least not yet, an anti-Semite.
Response · December 14, 2015
Why Obama Can’t Catch Up with Putin’s Increasingly Bold Moves
By Leon Aron
Blind to the motives that shape the Russian president's strategy, the White House pursues a futile search for “common ground.”