Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West by Catherine Belton

This book is a SUMMARY of Catherine Belton's Putin's People on the Interference in the American election and in no way replaces the original book.

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 reveal 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 Brooklyn's Brighton Beach―and assembling a colourful 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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Author: Tristan Hammond
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 07/27/2022
Pages: 40
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.08d
ISBN: 9798842761869

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