Steven Broschart
DE·EN
Contact
← All publications
Cover: Putins digitale Front und die Wahrheit dahinter
Book release Springer · 2024

Putins digitale Front und die Wahrheit dahinter.

Steven Broschart · with a foreword by Dr. Rainer Fromm

Putin's war in Ukraine is not only fought on the battlefield. It is also fought on the digital front — with words and information as the ammunition of hybrid warfare. The aim is manipulation and control, confusion and distraction from what is really happening.

But the internet is used not only for propaganda, but also for intelligence work and logistics. Russia leaves many traces behind. The book shows, in accessible language that requires no prior knowledge, which psychological and communicative tools are deployed along Putin's digital front line.

Buy from Springer Buy on Amazon English Version
Publisher
Springer
ISBN
978-3-658-44577-5
Languages
German · English
Added to the holdings of the Library of the German Bundestag — listed in the "New Books" newsletter, October 2024 (P5a Defence / Foreign Affairs).
Contents

16 chapters — from the conspiracy to the Wagner Group.

The book is divided into two parts: the first describes the mechanisms of digital warfare; the second analyses specific events on the basis of search behaviour data.

Part I — Propaganda · The digital front
01Why this book?pp. 1–5
02Introductionpp. 7–29
03The conspiracypp. 33–46
04Cognitive biasespp. 47–53
05Propagandapp. 55–106
Part II — Google's metadata · The truth behind the front line
06The eve of the warpp. 109–140
07Ukrainian refugees kill ethnic German from Russiapp. 141–150
08The Bucha massacrepp. 151–161
09Attack on Kramatorsk railway stationpp. 163–172
10The shopping centre in Kremenchukpp. 173–178
11Nord Streampp. 179–211
12Ramzan Kadyrov and Vladimir Putinpp. 213–222
13The destruction of the Kakhovka dampp. 223–243
14Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Wagner Grouppp. 245–299
15The oligarch deaths: Anton Cherepennikovpp. 301–316
16The Russian spectaclepp. 317–318
Topics

Keywords

Russia Ukraine war Putin Hybrid warfare Propaganda Behavioral analysis Digital behavioral traces Search behavior data
Reading & interview

Planning a book review, an interview or a reading?
Get in touch.

Get in touch