Felshtinsky / Popov From Red Terror to Terrorist State

Russia's Secret Service and Its Fight for World Domination: from Felix Dzerzhinsky to Vladimir Putin
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-78334-259-4
Verlag: Gibson Square
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten

'Detail worthy of a John le Carre novel.' 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.

Yuri Felshtinsky is a historian of the Russian secret service with close ties to leading defectors. He co-authored bestseller Blowing Up Russia (Gibson Square) with poisoned KGB Lt-Colonel Alexander Litvinenko, and his books have been published in twenty-two languages. He was a Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and was the first US citizen to receive a doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of History. He has appeared as news commentator on MSNBC, NPR, PBS, BBC and Sky TV, and in British and European media such as the Telegraph, Spectator, New European, Brussels Times, Daily Mail, el Mundo, el Pais, Die Zeit, L'Express, Svenska Dagbladet, Washington Post.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Felshtinsky, Yuri

Popov, Vladimir

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List of Abbreviations

AFB Federal Security Agency

APN Soviet Press Agency Novosti

APS Apparatus for Seconded Personnel (see also ARO), 1998-

ARCCF American-Russian Cultural Cooperation Foundation

ARO Active Reserve Officers, 1955 (see also APS), 1953-1998

ASEM Asia-Europe Meeting

AU American University

BIS Security Information Service—national intelligence agency of the Czech Republic

CC Central Committee

CEC Committee for External Communications

CNI Center for the National Interest

CPG Communist Party of Germany

CPR Center for Public Relations of the KGB/FSB

CPSU Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1912-1991

DECR Department of External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church

DoJ US Department of Justice

ETIRC European Technology and Investment Research Centers

FARA Foreign Agent Registration Act

FSB Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, 1995-

FSK Federal Counterintelligence Service of the Russian Federation, 1993-1995

GDR German Democratic Republic (East Germany), 1949-1990

GITIS State Institute of Theater Arts

GKU Main Control Directorate

GPU State Political Directorate, 1922-1923

GRU Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Soviet Army, 1918-1992

GUGB Chief Directorate of State Security, 1934-1941

GULAG Administration of the Soviet Forced-Labor Camps

JAC Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee

JV Joint venture

IMEMO Institute of Global Economics and International Relations

INO Foreign Department of the OGPU

IRC Initiative for Russian Culture

ISAA Institute of Strategic Assessment and Analysis

KGB Committee of State Security

KMO Soviet Committee of Youth Organizations

Komsomol The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League

KRO Congress of Russian Communities

LG Literaturnaya Gazeta (literary gazette), leading weekly

MB Ministry of Security

MBVD Ministry of Security and Internal Affairs of the RSFSR

MCD Main Control Department

MFA Ministry of Foreign Affairs

MGB Ministry of State Security

MISI Moscow Institute of Civil Engineering

MOC International Olympic Committee

MPLA People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola

MSB Inter-Republican Security Service

MSIIR Moscow State Institute of International Relations

MSU Moscow State University

MUR Moscow Criminal Investigations Department

MVD Ministry of Internal Affairs

NDR Our Home is Russia, 1995-2006

NFA People’s Front of Azerbaijan

NGO Non-governmental organization

NKGB People’s Commissariat of State Security

NKVD People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs

NRA National Rifle Association

NTS National Alliance of Russian Solidarists

NTV Independent TV Channel (Moscow)

OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

OGPU Joint State Political Directorate, 1923-1934

OPA Office of the Presidential Affairs

ODP Office of Domestic Policy

ORT Public Russian Television, 1995-2002

OTRK Ostankino TV and Radio Complex (Moscow)

OVR Political Party Fatherland—All Russia, 1998-2002

PDPA People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan

PFU Patrice Lumumba Peoples’ Friendship University

PMR Pridnestrovian [Transnistrian] Moldavian Republic

PR Public Relations

PGU First Chief Directorate of the KGB, 1920-1991

RAU Russian-American University

RISR Russian Institute for Strategic Research

RFPF Russian Federal Property Fund

RNE Russian National Unity

ROCA Russian Orthodox Church Abroad

RSFSR Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, 1917-1991

RSKhD Russian Student Christian Movement

RUBOP Regional Department for Combating Organized Crime

RT Russia Today TV Channel

SALTT Strategy & Leadership in Transformational Times

SBP Presidential Security Service, 1993-

SCSE State Committee on the State of Emergency (also GKChP), August 1991

SMERSH Military counterintelligence service Smert’ shpionam (‘death to spies’)

SNK Council of People’s Commissars, the government, 1917-1946

SR Socialist-Revolutionaries

SS Schutzstaffel, a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany

SS Secret Service

SVR Foreign Intelligence Service, 1991-

TASS Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union

UES Unified Energy System of...