Can't quite believe that the book on Alexei Navalny that I've written with @JanMattiD and @m_lallouet for @HurstPublishers now exists. Short 🧵 on how the book came into existence. 1/? 
With Navalny's poisoning, recovery, and return to Russia, he was in the news a lot from August 2020 – but Western media sometimes struggled to make sense of this complex figure. So I was often asked to recommend an English-language book on him. 2/?
This included @DrSeanHanley of @UCLSSEES, who suggested I write one if such a book didn't already exist. I reached out to @JanMattiD and @m_lallouet via Twitter on 29 January 2021 to ask whether they could recommend anything, given their research expertise on Navalny... 3/?
... but they also couldn't think of such a book – so we decided to write one together. 4/?
After finding @EuanThorneycrof – a great agent with @AMHeathLtd – we secured a contract with the excellent @MikeDwyerMike @HurstPublishers. 5/?
Cue montage of a flurry of writing over a few months, as we aimed to have the manuscript finished and out on bookstore shelves before the September 2021 State Duma elections in Russia. (Huge thanks to @timpage30 for patient, precision copy editing!) 6/?
We can't thank enough the many people who gave very generous endorsements for the book: @jillrussia, @MarkGaleotti, @biannagolodryga, @samagreene, Fiona Hill of @BrookingsInst, @Bridget_Kendall, @McFaul, Nikolay Petrov of @CHRussiaEurasia, @gideonrachman, @gbrunc... 7/?
... Richard Sakwa of @UniKentPolitics, @GwendolynSasse, @eschulmann, @AndreiSoldatov, and @irinaborogan. 8/?
Not to mention all of the many other people without whom the book simply wouldn't exist. 9/?
Use discount code NAVALNY25 for 25% off when ordering directly from Hurst: hurstpublishers.com/book/navalny/ 10/?
If you're deciding whether or not to buy the book, here are the back cover endorsements from Fiona Hill of @BrookingsInst, @McFaul, @gideonrachman, @jillrussia, and Richard Sakwa of @UniKentPolitics, which might help you decide. 11/?
The book will be released by Oxford University Press @OUPAcademic in the US on 1 September: global.oup.com/academic/produ… (you might need to adjust location at the top of the page to view content). Use discount code ADISTA5 for 30% off. 12/?
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