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.”