Trump and Putin in media mythologies. By Olena Leipnik. London and New York, Routledge. 2025. vii, 182 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $152.00, hard bound

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Sloane, Wendy (2026) Trump and Putin in media mythologies. By Olena Leipnik. London and New York, Routledge. 2025. vii, 182 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $152.00, hard bound. The Slavic Review, 85 (2). pp. 531-532. ISSN 2325-7784

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Review of this book about the public personas of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, blurring the line between politics and spectacle.This slim but ambitious book by Olena Leipnik traces the genealogy of their respective “media imageries”, examining in detail how each leader has been mythologized within the public psyche, and how, in the process, both come to function less as conventional political actors than as mythic figures.

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Title:

Trump and Putin in media mythologies. By Olena Leipnik. London and New York, Routledge. 2025. vii, 182 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $152.00, hard bound

Creators:

Sloane, Wendy

Identification Number:

10.1017/slr.2026.10443

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https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2026.10443

Date:

6 October 2026

Subjects:

000 Computer science, information & general works
000 Computer science, information & general works > 070 News media, journalism & publishing
300 Social sciences
300 Social sciences > 320 Political science

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School of Computing and Digital Media (SCDM)