%0 Journal Article
%T Book Review - Putin's Olympics: The Sochi Games and the Evolution of Twenty-First Century Russia
%A Urban Jak£¿a
%J -
%D 2018
%X 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
%K Sochi Olympics
%K Russia
%K mega-projects
%K corruption
%K surveillance
%U http://dergipark.org.tr/jocas/issue/37647/422706