The Age of Assassins describes in gripping detail Vladimir Putins ruthless rise to power in Russia from his earliest rise to power in 1991 as an insignificant former KGB officer in Berlin. He gained power over the entire country and its economy by determining elections through business deals and criminal intervention from sophisticated cheating right up to murder and poisoning.
Recenzijas
Required reading A catalogue of corruption... fascinating. Oleg Gordievsky, The Times Crooks and killers... compelling a clear and accurate picture the strength of this book is research. Vladimir Bukovsky Observer Contains extraordinary detail about the way this KGB clan managed to occupy an estimated 7 in 10 of all top state positions, establish control over the countrys natural resources, and eliminate all rivals. Telegraph Scandals in post-Soviet history a narrative of infamy and camouflage. Economist A wealth of detail convincing as it catalogues a series of crimes perpetrated by Putin and the FSB. Owen Matthews, TLS Putins shadowy world unnerving necessary reading. Sunday Business Post Dodgy deals and horrible murders.. you end up wondering why quite so many of Vlads critics have ended up dead. New Statesman, books of the year
Forewords
List of Abbreviations
First Prologue
Second Prologue
CHAPTER 1 Korzhakovs Conspiracy
CHAPTER 2 Who is Mr Putin?
CHAPTER 3 Putin in St. Petersburg
CHAPTER 4 Putin in Moscow
CHAPTER 5 The Second Chechen War
CHAPTER 6 Operation Successor
CHAPTER 7 The FSB, the Oligarchs, and the Clans
CHAPTER 8 The Presidents Friends or Agents
and Objects
CHAPTER 9 Managed Democracy
CHAPTER 10 The Suppression of the Media
CHAPTER 11 The Age of Assassins
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Yuri Felshtinsky studied history at Brandeis University, received doctorates from Rutgers and Moscow universities, and was a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is an expert on the history of the Russian secret service from Lenin to the present time, and wrote Blowing up Russia (translated in 23 languages) with Alexander Litvinenko, for whose assassination in 2006 Vladimir Putin was responsible according to the verdict of the UKs official Litvinenko Inquiry (2016). Vladimir Pribylovsky was a historian, opposition journalist and one-time Duma candidate.
