Exiled Russian businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once the country’s wealthiest man, published a book last year titled How to Slay a Dragon: Building a New Russia After Putin.
The book argues that Russian opposition politicians and organisations should unite around the tasks of the inevitable revolution: the overthrow of the Putin regime and the establishment of a transitional government that creates the conditions needed for a sustainable liberal democracy of the Western type.
But like many other attempts to propose a “positive programme” (whether anti-corruption activist Alexey Navalny or opposition politician Vladimir Milov), Khodorkovsky’s book has failed to spark much discussion in the year since it was published. Here’s why.
