new publication
full version published by Europa Verlag
A short version of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s newest book HOW TO SLAY A DRAGON had been published as a booklet for the Munich Security Conference where Khodorkovsky was on stage as a conference speaker. Now enhanced with a special chapter on Ukraine the full version has been published as a hardcover.
How can a totalitarian regime be put to an end? By whom? From the inside or from the outside? With a totalitarian ruler acting aggressively both internally and externally, would there even be a chance of a reasonably peaceful change of power? After that, who would come to power in Russia? And what would that power look like? How should a new Russian state be organized in order to break through the compulsion to repeat imperialism?
Far from any know-it-all attitude, the book poses questions, uncomfortable questions that have been avoided in the West up to now, such as non-violence, and derives the resulting options for action. It does not want to provide recipes, but to initiate a dis- cussion long overdue.