Woodslane | Book - 9781783342501

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Google Preview: There is a long-forgotten reason why Communism succeeded in 1923 Russia. Rather than Lenin's oratory, it was the formation of its secret service the Cheka ('The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission') under Felix Dzerzhinsky - a ruthless killer and Vladimir Putin's first predecessor - which assassinated anyone who opposed Lenin. This is the first authoritative history of the struggle of the Russian secret service with the Communist party to gain control over the state, its success in 1999, and what drives its operatives from 1917 to this day - Putin included. Behind Putin stands a hundred year old organisation with overriding values of its own, ready to replace him with someone else from their ranks should that be necessary (like Russian dolls).; Dr Yuri Felshtinsky taught at Boston University and was a Fellow of the Hoover Institute, University of Stanford. He wrote bestseller Blowing up Russia ('Crucially important' Prof. Robert Service, Oxford University) with Alexander Litvinenko (Netflix bio-series in 2023), Colonel Vladimir Popov was a KGB operative from 1972 to the KGB putsch in August 1991 - in which he refused to take part. He emigrated to Canada where he currently resides.; * 'Authoritative... a gripping crime story'. Viktor Suvorov, former GRU officer and Russian historian; Google Preview content