In The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker provides a deeply reported, bottom-up explanation of Putin's aggressive foreign policy and his support among Russians.

Part 1 : Curating the past : A first-tier nation -- The sacred war -- Chechnya: the deal -- Kolyma: the end of the earth -- Part 2 : Curating the present : The Olympic dream -- Ukraine is not dead yet -- The Crimean gambit -- The Crimean Tartars -- Russian Crimea -- Part 3 :The past becomes the present : Donbass: the spiral -- War -- Part 4 : The past in the future : After the war.