Patriot (Biography & Memoirs)— Alexey Navalny

The last message to the world from a defiant Russian politician who paid with his life for his convictions.

Alexei Navalny began writing Patriot shortly after the poisoning that nearly killed him in 2020. This book is the complete story of his life: his youth, his beginnings in activism, his family, and his commitment to the cause of democracy in the face of the Russian superpower's efforts to silence him. With agile and eloquent prose, including unpublished correspondence that he managed to transfer from his confinement, Navalny recounts his political career and the assassination attempts he and his circle suffered, as well as the tireless campaign he and his team waged against an increasingly authoritarian regime. With the same sincerity and courage that defined him, Patriot is a moving account of his final years in one of the most brutal prisons in existence, a reminder of why the principles of individual freedom are so fundamental, and an enthusiastic call to continue the work for which he gave his life.