Moscow Escape Meets Oligarch Intrigue and Family Fear
Family escape and oligarch investigation give this account both intimacy and danger. Jason Corcoran grounds the Russia story in lived experience, so the politics never drift too far from personal stakes. The memoir angle keeps the danger close and personal.
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Leaving Russia: How Putin Forced a Nations Future to Flee
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Moscow Escape Meets Oligarch Intrigue and Family Fear
Family escape and oligarch investigation give this account both intimacy and danger. Jason Corcoran grounds the Russia story in lived experience, so the politics never drift too far from personal stakes. The memoir angle keeps the danger close and personal.
- Book Synopsis
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Leaving Russia follows Jason Corcoran as he and his family flee Moscow after Putin's invasion of Ukraine, joining a historic exodus of Russians escaping repression, fear, and moral collapse. As they struggle to rebuild their lives in Ireland, Corcoran becomes entangled in a chilling investigation into two powerful oligarchs seeking EU 'golden passports.' The book chronicles the experiences of a director, a musician, an investment banker, a billionaire entrepreneur, an opposition leader, and a tech founder, all swept up in the mass flight from Russia. As they flee, these individuals face the personal and professional consequences of a society in moral and political freefall, while elites scramble to secure EU residency in an attempt to straddle both worlds. Corcoran provides an insider's view of a nation unravelling. War, corruption, and state propaganda have emptied Russia of dissidents, artists, and entrepreneurs, while compelling once-powerful oligarchs to return to a country they scarcely recognise. Through vivid storytelling and incisive analysis, Leaving Russia exposes the human cost of Putin's regime and examines what it means to lose - and to search for - a homeland in a fractured world.
Ideal for readers who:
- Seek out memoirs where politics and personal danger sit close together.
- Care about family escape, oligarch investigation and Russian power.
- Find lived experience that keeps big events grounded.
- Return to true stories where public risk feels intensely private.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781068407727
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Quartet Books, (30 April 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 211
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 220 x 140 mm
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