The verdict on Alexei Navalny, the most vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his “corrupt” regime, is split. He died in February in a remote Arctic prison colony after prolonged imprisonment. Detractors believe he was a victim of slow poisoning by Putin’s men.

In the West, Navalny was seen as a bold and fearless crusader who wanted a corruption-free Russia. The Kremlin saw him as a CIA stooge who wanted a regime change and turn Moscow into a pliant US vassal state.

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Navalny, who had begun his career as a corporate lawyer changed when he took interest in politics and came into prominence through his relentless campaign against corruption. His campaign displayed the opulent life-style of Russia’s rulers that he regularly posted through videos on YouTube, including a purported billion-dollar palace of Putin’s on the Black Sea coast that Western media reports said, was watched 130m times. Patriot, his posthumous autobiography-cum-prison diary comes amid further strains in relations between the West and Russia because of the Ukraine war.

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Navalny wanted to write a spy thriller, not a prison diary. The idea came to him after he survived an attempt by Russian secret agents to spray his underwear with the chemical weapon Novichok in 2020.

The book begins like a racy thriller as it describes in detail on how he collapsed on a flight and...

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