Putin's People
How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West
(Sprache: Englisch)
A New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller | A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Named a best book of the year by The Economist | Financial Times | New Statesman | The Telegraph
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A New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller | A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceNamed a best book of the year by The Economist | Financial Times | New Statesman | The Telegraph
"[Putin's People] will surely now become the definitive account of the rise of Putin and Putinism." -Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic
"This riveting, immaculately researched book is arguably the best single volume written about Putin, the people around him and perhaps even about contemporary Russia itself in the past three decades." -Peter Frankopan, Financial Times
Interference in American 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, the investigative journalist and former Moscow correspondent Catherine Belton reveals the untold story of how Vladimir Putin and the small group of KGB men surrounding him rose to power and looted their country. Delving deep into the workings of Putin's Kremlin, Belton accesses key inside players to reveal how Putin replaced the freewheeling tycoons of the Yeltsin era with a new generation of loyal oligarchs, who in turn subverted Russia's economy and legal system and extended the Kremlin's reach into the United States and Europe. The result is a chilling and revelatory exposé of the KGB's revanche-a story that begins in the murk of the Soviet collapse, when networks of operatives were able to siphon billions of dollars out of state enterprises and move their spoils into the West. Putin and his allies subsequently completed the agenda, reasserting Russian power while taking control of the economy for themselves, suppressing independent voices, and launching covert influence operations abroad.
Ranging from Moscow and London to Switzerland and
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Brooklyn's Brighton Beach-and assembling a colorful cast of characters to match-Putin's People is the definitive account of how hopes for the new Russia went astray, with stark consequences for its inhabitants and, increasingly, the world.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Putin's People “
List of IllustrationsDramatis Personae
Prologue
Part One
1 'Operation Luch'
2 Inside Job
3 'The Tip of an Iceberg'
4 Operation Successor: 'It Was Already After Midnight'
5 'Children's Toys in Pools of Mud'
Part Two
6 'The Inner Circle Made Him'
7 'Operation Energy'
8 Out of Terror, an Imperial Awakening
9 'Appetite Comes During Eating'
Part Three
10 Obschak
11 Londongrad
12 The Battle Begins
13 Black Cash
14 Soft Power in an Iron Fist: 'I Call Them the Orthodox Taliban'
15 The Network and Donald Trump
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
Autoren-Porträt von Catherine Belton
Catherine Belton
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Catherine Belton
- 2020, 640 Seiten, Masse: 16,7 x 23,9 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
- ISBN-10: 0374238715
- ISBN-13: 9780374238711
- Erscheinungsdatum: 23.06.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
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