'A luminous study' Luke Harding, Guardian 'Courageous and shocking' Katy Guest, Books of the Year, Independent on Sunday How did a small-minded, low-level KGB operative come to control the world's largest country and, in an astonishingly short time, destroy years of progress, making Russia once more a threat to her own people and to the world? Masha Gessen shows that when Vladimir Putin, an unimportant, low-level KGB operative, was rushed to power by a group of Oligarchs in 1999, he was a man without a history. Yet within a few brief years, he had dismantled Russia's media, wrested control and wealth from the country's burgeoning business class, and decimated the fragile mechanisms of democracy. Virtually every opposing voice was silenced, with political rivals and critics driven into exile or to the grave. Drawing on information and sources no other writer has tapped, Masha Gessen's fearless...
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2014-04-06
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Aktuellare än någonsin, Marsha Gessens skrämmande skildring av utvecklingen mot diktatur i Ryssland och av Putin som maktdespot. Hon har hittat källor som berättar om Putins uppväxt och väg till makten och argumenterar för att en del av det som har angetts som tetjeniska terrordåd i själva verket var iscensatta av KGB. Hennes skildring verkar trovärdig mot bakgrund av de senaste händelserna.
2014-02-23
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En skrämmande berättelse om Putins väg till makten. Ryssland är tillbaka på ruta ett igen-diktatur!
