The acclaimed history of Putin's rise and consolidation of power, updated with the Skripal-Sturgess poisonings and other killings since the Duma authorised the Russian President to kill on foreign soil.

The Age of Assassins: Murder, Poisonings and the Rise of Vladimir Putin

Biographies & Memoirs

Felshtinsky, Yuri

Leaders & Notable People

Gibson Square Books Ltd

Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine came from nowhere? Felshtinsky and Stanchev’s gripping history chronicles Ukraine’s story from its origins to its modern day struggle to ward off Russian interference. A bestseller published after Russia annexed the Crimea in 2014 it predicted that the Russian invasion was but a matter of time and argued how it could have been avoided in order to avoid a nuclear conflict that could drag the world into a global war. This is a must-read for those who want to understand the background of the crisis and how we can move forward safely

Blowing Up Ukraine: The Return of Russian Terror and the Threat of World War III

History

Stanchev, Mikhael

Military

Gibson Square

New introduction by Yuri Felshtinsky. Blowing up Russia trace the extraordinary story behind the fake Islamist attacks on Moscow that led to marshal law and triggered Russia's invasion of Chechnya. Based on the steady stream of official statements and Litvinenko's insider knowledge, this exceptional book shows how there were no Islamist attacks at all. Rather all the exercises were carefully planned by the FSB itself to look as if Russia was under attack. The ultimate aim? To get Vladimir Putin, the FSB's former Head, elected as President.

Blowing up Russia The Secret KGB Plot that Delivered Russia to Putin

Self-Help

Litvinenko, Alexander

Death & Grief

The history of Russia after 1917 is traditionally written as the rise of the Communist Party from Lenin to Stalin to Gorbachev. Is that still the correct approach? 
Based on a trove of new historical sources from inside the Russian secret services, this exceptional book retells the story in the light of modern Russia and starts with the pivotal role of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the leader of the Communist Secret Service, the Cheka. He is relatively unknown, but was even more important in the overthrow of the Tsarist regime and submission of its people than Lenin. The leaders of the various guises of the Cheka fought tooth and nail to wrest state control from the Communist party. With the presidency of Vladimir Putin in 1999, Dzerzhinsky’s ultimate goal finally came to fruition. It explains why modern Russia is a state without ideology, the world’s only mafia-state programmed to forever extort, pillage and loot.

From Red Terror to Terrorist State: Russia’s Intelligence Services and Their Fight for World Domination from Felix Dzerzhinsky to Vladimir Putin

Popov, Vladimir

Russia

In 2017, Salvator Mundi by Leonardo Da Vinci set a world record by selling for $450m, the highest ever-paid for a painting. The sale was highly controversial, however, not least because the buyer was anonymous. Although it was the only Leonardo known to be owned privately, the image was only thought to be part-painted by the master and it was only rediscovered in 2005 at a Pennsylvania auction. Historian Yuri Felshtinsky shows this was only a small detail in its convoluted, far stranger history, which involves Donald Trump's election campaign, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Monaco and a Russian billionaire.

The Greatest Da Vinci Deal: Trump's Election Campaign and the Strange Case of a Masterpiece, a Sheikh and a Piece of Florida Real Estate

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

The Treaty that Ended the World Revolution. For decades, historians have been trying to understand why the â€œworld communist revolutionâ€ that broke out in Europe in 1917-1919 in the wake of the horror of the First World War ended in defeat. The overthrow of the Russian monarchy in March 1917 and the Bolshevik coup eight months later was followed by the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, a separate peace between Russia and the Central Powers, with unprecedented annexations and reparations. Vladimir Lenin called for the conclusion of a separate peace with Germany. Nikolai Bukharin called for immediate revolutionary war. Lev Trotsky adhered to a middle position, which has entered history under the slogan â€œneither peace nor war.â€ What is clear is that by forming a separate peace with Germany and her allies in order to stabilize Soviet rule in Russia, Leninâ€™s government delivered a stab in the back to the German socialist revolution. As a result, by 1919, the Soviet government, headed by Lenin, had survived in Russia, and it became the global center of the Communist International movement. Join scholar and noted Russian historian Yuri Felshtinsky as he examines existing and newly discovered source material for a fresh look at this pivotal turning point in world history.

Lenin, Trotsky, Germany and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: The Collapse of the World Revolution, November 1917-November 1918

Americas

Russell Enterprises, Inc.

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