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Abbreviations<br /><br /><br /> <br /> Preface: Zelensky’s Political Oscar<br /><br /><br /> <br /> 1    Ten Assassination Attempts on President Zelensky<br /><br /> 2    The Campaign for President<br /><br /> 3    “Let It Be the Stadium Then!”<br /><br /> 4    Zelensky and Forty-two Million Presidents<br /><br /> 5    Devirtualization of Servant of the People<br /><br /> 6    A Mad Printer for the President<br /><br /> 7    Trump’s Impeachment<br /><br /> 8    Vice-President Bohdan<br /><br /> 9    The Cosmic Year of 1978<br /><br /> 10   The Irreplaceable Yuliya Mendel<br /><br /> 11   Look into the Eyes of Putin and …<br /><br /> 12   The Amateur on an Electric Scooter<br /><br /> 13   A Little Bell for Maslyakov<br /><br /> 14   Godfather Rodnyansky<br /><br /> 15   A Scandal in Jurmala<br /><br /> 16   The Family of Kvartal 95 <br /><br /> 17   The Kadyrov Ordeal<br /><br /> 18   Ebony Rods<br /><br /> 19   Zelensky's Double<br /><br /> 20   Zelensky’s Ceremonial General <br /> <br /> 21   Zelensky’s Shefir Brothers<br /><br /> 22   Kolomoisky’s Knife<br /><br /> 23   Poroshenko on His Knees<br /><br /> 24   The Zelensky Collective<br /><br /> 25   Zelensky’s Idol Syvokho<br /><br /> 26   The Polygraph for “Servants of the People”<br /><br /> 27   Who Turned Zelensky into an Addict?<br /><br /> 28   Zelensky under Yermak<br /><br /> 29   Zelensky’s Dream Team<br /><br /> 30   Zelensky’s Architect<br /><br /> 31   The Magic Number 95<br /><br /> 32   He Who Burdened Zelensky with the Presidency<br /><br /> 33   A Gagarin for Zelensky<br /><br /> 34   A Black Mirror for a Hero<br /><br /> 35   Zvirobiy, Fedyna, and a Victim<br /><br /> 36   Wagnergate: A Story with Many Unknowns<br /><br /> 37   How the Oligarch Akhmetov Prepared a Coup for Zelensky<br /><br /> 38   The Bucha Massacre<br /><br /><br /> <br /> Epilogue: The President of War <br /><br /><br /> <br /> Chronology

<p>"War is a rupture—in a country's life and a leader's. Amid the calamity, Ukrainians have proven lucky in theirs. As Mr Rudenko writes at the close, the man who was 'visibly nervous' in his early bouts of diplomacy, the ingénue and clown, now has an experience of statecraft that no modern Western leader can match, nor would wish to."<br /><b><i>The Economist</i></b></p> <p>"From voice of Paddington to global giant... the man behind the wartime façade"<br /><b><i>The Observer</i></b></p> <p>"The first English-language biography of Zelensky reveals what Ukrainians really think of him"<br /><b><i>The Telegraph</i></b></p> <p>"Serhii Rudenko's biography is a portrait of a wartime hero whose troubled past may return to haunt him... [It is] an extraordinary life story, which is still being written. Reading this biography now, in the wake of a war that upended our understanding of both Zelensky and Ukraine, presents his personal history in a new light."<br /><b>Lyse Doucet, <i>The New Statesman</i></b></p> <p>"Fascinating"<br /><b><i>The Guardian</i></b></p> <p>"A fast-paced biography of an unexpected world leader... the author capably shows how Zelensky has displayed an astonishing transformation in the face of continued Russian aggression."<br /><b><i>Kirkus</i></b></p> <p>"Rudenko has written a succinct political biography that plunges readers right into the middle of the Ukrainian political scene"<br /><b><i>Prospect Magazine</i></b></p> <p>"... important and detailed...: Zelensky is easily the equal of the most impressive wartime leaders the West has ever had."<br /><b>Owen Matthews, <i>The Spectator</i></b></p>

<p><b>Serhii Rudenko</b> is a Ukrainian journalist and political commentator who has published several books on Ukrainian politicians.</p>

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