About a Boy: The Story of Vladimir Putin
The West's obsession with Vladimir Putin's KGB past often misses the biographical detail that can be captured by a single word: dvor. The word means courtyard in Russian, but to a Russian speaker, it is evocative of a wh...
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | |
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| 10/25/23 | Chapter 5: All the World’s a Dvor | To predict what Vladimir Putin might do next in Ukraine, it’s helpful to remember his first and foremost education — in the dvor. | 42m 52s | |
| 10/18/23 | Chapter 4: The Big Brother | Organized crime and violence reign supreme in post-Soviet Russia. In this world, the rules of the dvor prove invaluable — for the men fighting over the jewels of the Soviet industrial empire, and for Vladimir Putin. | 33m 17s | |
| 10/11/23 | Chapter 3: The Punk | Putin grows up as a small, scrawny kid in a poor neighborhood with few ways up. Enter judo and the KGB. | 31m 01s | |
| 10/4/23 | Chapter 2: The Rat | Soviet baby boomers are born into a country ravaged by war. Given that parents are largely absent — either dead, traumatized, or working to make ends meet – children spend most of their time in the dvor, the urban courtyard. The dvor is Vladimir Putin’s world. | 23m 52s | |
| 10/4/23 | Chapter 1: The Ghosts | The Soviet Union suffers unthinkable horrors during World War II. Leningrad, the city into which Vladimir Putin is born, loses more than a million of its citizens to starvation, and Vladimir Putin’s parents barely make it out alive. | 27m 56s | |
| 10/2/23 | About a Boy: The Story of Vladimir Putin | In the West, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is always seen as one of two things: KGB spy or judo master. But to anyone who’s ever lived in the Soviet Union, Putin is something else entirely: a street kid. Join journalist Julia Ioffe as she explores how Putin’s childhood taught him lessons that shape his thinking and actions to this day. | 3m 15s |
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Chart history for About a Boy: The Story of Vladimir Putin
Peaked at #193 in Denmark, currently #193 in Denmark.
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| Denmark | — | #193 | #193 | — |
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1 placement across 1 market.