About the book: 2011 / In 2011, United Russia turns ten years old, and it is simply impossible to imagine our country without it. This book is the true history of United Russia, telling about its birth, how it turned into a “corporation” for the extraction of power and a pedestal for the power vertical. How and who actually created this party? Has it become a real control panel for the country or just an insurance policy for Vladimir Putin, protecting him from other contenders for power? What privileges do United Russia members enjoy and how do they have to pay for these privileges? Why do the main characters of the party always remain in the shadows? The authors of the book answer all these and many other questions. The book provides a lot of unknown details from the life of perhaps the most powerful and at the same time the most helpless party in post-Soviet times and talks about what awaits this party next - even deeper penetration into our lives, collapse or oblivion. For a wide range of readers.