PART ONE: The Present as Prologue -- 1. Arms and the Man -- PART TWO: Background Check -- 2. The Education of V.V. Putin -- 3. Dresden -- PART THREE: Ascent -- 4. Russia's Fall, Putin's Rise -- 5. The Russia Putin Inherited and Its Spiritual Ills -- PART FOUR: Core Issues -- 6. Oil : A Wasting Asset -- 7. The Heart of the Matter : Ukraine -- PART FIVE: North- and Eastward -- 8. Russia's Mecca : The Artctic -- 9. Manifesting Destiny : Asia -- PART SIX: The Twilight of Paranoia -- 10. How Vladmir Putin Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Internet -- PART SEVEN: The End and After -- 11. Russia Without Putin, Putin Without Russia.