The new issue of Time presents a stark cover photo of Vladimir Putin, captioned with a succession of titles: once “Premier,” then “President,” but now “Czar.” In analyzing “Putinism,” Time‘s Michael Crowley and Simon Shuster do not hesitate to trace the roots back a century and beyond:

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