Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West
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- Synopsis
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The hacking of the 2016 US elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine. In recent years, Vladimir Putin's Russia has waged a concerted campaign to expand its influence and undermine Western institutions. But how and why did all this come about and who has orchestrated it?
In Putin's People, investigative journalist Catherine Belton tells the untold story of the rise to power of Vladimir Putin and the small group of KGB men surrounding him. Delving deep into the workings of Putin's Kremlin, Belton accesses key inside players to reveal how Putin replaced the free-wheeling tycoons of the Yeltsin era with a new generation of loyal oligarchs, who in turn subverted their country's economy and legal system and expanded its influence into the West.
The result is a chilling and revelatory expose of the KGB's revanche – a story that began long ago in the murk of the Soviet collapse when networks of operatives were able to siphon billions of dollars out of...
New York Times Bestseller
- Copyright:
- 2020
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 480 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780007578801
- Publisher:
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Date of Addition:
- 02/05/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Catherine Belton
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- Yes
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.