From Red Terror to Terrorist State: Russia's Secret Intelligence Services and Their Fight for World Domination from Felix Dzerzhinsky to Vladimir Putin - Couverture rigide

Felshtinsky, Yuri; Popov, Vladimir

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ISBN 10 : 1783342501 ISBN 13 : 9781783342501

Editeur : Gibson Square Books Ltd, 2023

Synopsis

'Infamous KGB history... worthy of John le Carré.' Telegraph
The history of modern Russia traditionally has Communism at its centre: Lenin defines its rise, Gorbachev its fall, and Putin its aftermath. In this radical new history, Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Popov, however, introduce a new historical axis: the Cheka―the Bolsheviks’ nebulous revolutionary intelligence service. Wrapped around the Party in a fight to the death from 1918 under its first head Felix Dzerzhinsky, only Stalin was able to resist its stranglehold at the cost of enormous bloodshed. Luring Russia into submission over less than a century, its murder-plots and unrivalled scheming culminated in the capture of the Kremlin in 2000. Drawing on Popov’s secret documents of over two decades as a senior officer in one of the KGB’s key covert sections, and on Felshtinsky’s encyclopedic knowledge of Russian state archives open in the 1990s, little-known sources, and access to leading oligarchs, a new Russian history emerges. The story they tell is often unexpected while introducing a new cast of characters still of great influence―potentially surpassing Lenin’s role―on our world today. From Red Terror to Terrorist State is the first complete history of the Cheka. Written from the inside, it fundamentally transforms our understanding of Russia and rethinks the way today’s Kremlin views itself and the rest of the world. Animated by lifelong study, this authoritative narrative by two exceptional Russian-intelligence experts presents ground-breaking new insights based on an unrivalled wealth of new factual details.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dr Yuri Felshtinsky was a Fellow of the Hoover Institution, University of Stanford. He wrote bestseller Blowing up Russia (‘Crucially important’ Prof. Robert Service, Oxford University) with Alexander Litvinenko; Colonel Vladimir Popov was a KGB officer until he emigrated to Canada where he currently lives as a political refugee.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gibson Square Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1783342501
• ISBN 13: 9781783342501
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 500
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• Personne responsable: non disponible