The Corporation: Russia and the KGB in the Age of President Putin

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"The twentieth century has entered history as an age of tyrants. Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Mao Zedong. In The Corporation, Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Pribylovsky expose a new type of tyrant in Vladimir Putin. While dictators of the past have been self-motivated and self-appointed, Putin was handpicked for power by Russia's newest ruling class, the Federal Security Service (FSB). As in the handover of executive power in any large corporation, it was the desire of the "shareholders" that Vladimir Putin would guarantee their rights in the new
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"The twentieth century has entered history as an age of tyrants. Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Mao Zedong. In The Corporation, Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Pribylovsky expose a new type of tyrant in Vladimir Putin. While dictators of the past have been self-motivated and self-appointed, Putin was handpicked for power by Russia's newest ruling class, the Federal Security Service (FSB). As in the handover of executive power in any large corporation, it was the desire of the "shareholders" that Vladimir Putin would guarantee their rights in the new corporate republic." "Starting with the ashes of the KGB, on through the oil tycoons of the Yeltsin era, Felshtinsky and Pribylovsky trace the development of the Russian Federation's strange new ideology, revealing how members of Russia's ruling class have adopted the mantra of capitalism-so hated in the old Soviet ideology. They now think and behave as the world's most ruthless corporation." From acts of domestic terrorism and political assassinations to windfalls in billions of dollars worth of shares in private or state-owned companies, The Corporation unveils the shocking truth about Putin's reign and the team of FSB agents who serve him loyally. Even as he leaves the presidency, Putin's influence carries on from the prime minister's office. The question now is: how much of Vladimir Putin's power is his own, and how much is simply on loan to him from the Corporation?
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781594032462
  • Publisher: Encounter Books
  • Publication date: 2/15/2009
  • Pages: 300
  • Sales rank: 388,790
  • Product dimensions: 6.30 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 1.80 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction

List of Abbreviations

Ch. 1 Korzhakov's Conspiracy 1

Ch. 2 Who Is Mr. Putin? 29

Ch. 3 Putin in St. Petersburg 43

Ch. 4 Putin in Moscow 111

Ch. 5 The Second Chechen War 133

Ch. 6 "Operation Successor" 145

Ch. 7 The FSB, the Oligarchs, and the Clans 171

Ch. 8 The President's Friends or "Agents and Objects" 219

Ch. 9 Managed Democracy 259

Ch. 10 The Suppression of the Media 355

Ch. 11 The Age of Assassins 429

Conclusion 489

Notes 493

Index 507

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