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Original title: Putinin USA
Author: Jessikka Aro
Published: 2025
Publisher: Johnny Kniga
Genres: General Nonfiction, Narrative Nonfiction, History & Politics
Pages: 400
Reading material:
English sample in October 2025. Finnish PDF, content plan
Putin’s USA is a page-turner you wish wasn’t true.
A highly topical nonfiction book on Russia’s cyberwarfare against the United States and democracy, unfolding like a thriller.
Putin’s Russia is waging an increasingly aggressive cold war against the West. The weapons used in cyberspace and the information domains seem straight out of science fiction movies.
In journalist and author Jessikka Aro’s third book investigating Russia’s covert operations, the focus is on patriotic hackers, honey traps infiltrating the Republican Party, connections between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign team and Putin’s spies, and electronic weaponry.
The book provides a close-up look at how systematically the Kremlin has been preparing its society for a major war against the United States and the entire democratic West. In Russia, even universities have been turned into tools for shaping young people into agents of Putinism.
It is worse than the Cold War!
“I loved this project ('Putin's World War') immediately as a compelling narrative that humanizes the real-world consequences of Russia’s global propaganda war against the West. Putin’s World War is a piece of fascinating storytelling by an award-winning journalist — Jessikka Aro unpacks the details behind Russia’s hybrid-war propaganda machine and sheds light on how Putin uses disinformation as a potent weapon against Western values, the international community, and democratic governance. Her relentless investigative journalism provides readers with an invaluable perspective on a war of words, a war of ideas that might otherwise be overlooked amidst countless security threats across the world. We are excited to bring Jessikka’s important work to English readers everywhere.”
- Michael Kerns, Senior Publisher for Politics & International Relations at Bloomsbury USA (about Putin's World War)
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