The Kremlins Vote

Author : Andrew Turpin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1788750160

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The Kremlin's Vote Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

A plot against the United States' election, born in Moscow . . . Two top US officials are gunned down while visiting London. A trail of deception misleads the CIA. And former intelligence operative Jayne Robinson is viciously targeted during a high-risk foray into Russia. Robinson, previously a long-term MI6 officer, is covertly deployed by the CIA in a deniable operation to handle one of its biggest assets in the Kremlin and to get to the bottom of a threat that seems likely to engulf the White House-just as the next presidential election looms. The mission becomes deeply personal for Robinson when it emerges one of the victims is married to one of her best and oldest friends. But nothing is what it seems in this vortex of deception and deceit. As she gets closer to the truth behind the killings, Robinson finds herself challenged to the core while fending off threats from unexpected directions. The Kremlin's Vote, book number one in the Jayne Robinson series, is a gripping modern spy thriller with unexpected twists that will be difficult to put down.

Author : Daria A. Arincheva,Alexander V. Pantsov
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000873900

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The Kremlin's Chinese Advance Guard Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This book is a comprehensive historical study of the Bolshevik system of ideological and political indoctrination of a substantial number of Chinese revolutionaries, who studied in Comintern international institutions in Soviet Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 to the Great Terror of the late 1930s. Including analysis of previously unknown documentary materials from the Bolshevik Party and Comintern archives, as well as memoirs of former Chinese students and prisoners of Stalin’s camps, the book determines how effective the training of Chinese students in the main educational centers in Moscow was, how well it compared to the existing level of Marxist education in the USSR, and how the Stalinist regime defined the lives and fates of the Chinese revolutionaries in Soviet Russia. In raising questions about the transferability of revolutionary ideology, experience, and practice from the revolutionaries of one country to would-be revolutionaries in other countries the authors ask: can revolution be exported? Shedding light on an under-explored aspect of the early history of the CCP and the Soviet Bolshevik Party this book will be a valuable resource to both students and scholars of Chinese and Russian history and politics.

Author : Marc Bennetts
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781780743493

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Kicking the Kremlin Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

In the freezing winter of 2011, in what was a watershed moment, 100,000 took to Moscow’s streets to protest Putin’s landslide election victory amid widespread allegations of corruption and vote-rigging. A few months later, Pussy Riot hit headlines around the world when they were arrested following their anti-Putin demonstration in a Russian Orthodox cathedral. Now, Marc Bennetts takes us straight to the beating heart of the opposition movement, introducing a generation of Russian dissidents, all united by their hatred of Putin and his bid to silence all political adversaries. We meet a bustling cast of urban youth, blogging and tweeting to expose the injustices of the regime, and a rag-tag bunch of dissenters – from Bolshoi ballerinas to skinhead nationalists. Featuring interviews with everyone from Gary Kasparov to top Kremlin loyalists, this is the definitive guide to the vicious battle for Russia’s soul.

Author : David Shimer
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780593081969

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Rigged Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The definitive history of the covert struggle between Russia and America to influence elections, why the threat to American democracy is greater than ever, and what we can do about it. This is "the first book to put the story of Russian interference into a broader context.... Extraordinary and gripping" (The New York Times Book Review). Russia's interference in the 2016 elections marked only the latest chapter of a hidden and revelatory history. In Rigged, David Shimer tells the sweeping story of covert electoral interference past and present. He exposes decades of secret operations—by the KGB, the CIA, and Vladimir Putin's Russia—to shape electoral outcomes, melding deep historical research with groundbreaking interviews with more than 130 key players, from leading officials in both the Trump and Obama administrations to CIA and NSA directors to a former KGB general. Throughout history and in 2016, both Russian and American operations achieved their greatest success by influencing the way voters think, rather than tampering with actual vote tallies. Understanding 2016 as one battle in a much longer war is essential to comprehending the critical threat currently posed to America's electoral sovereignty and how to defend against it. Illuminating how the lessons of the past can be used to protect our democracy in the future, Rigged is an essential book for readers of every political persuasion.

Author : Mikhail Zygar
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781610397407

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All the Kremlin's Men Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

An extraordinary behind-the-scenes portrait of the court of Vladimir Putin, the oligarchs that surround it, and the many moods of modern Russia that reads like a "real House of Cards"(Lev Lurie). All the Kremlin's Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control. Based on an unprecedented series of interviews with Vladimir Putin's inner circle, this book presents a radically different view of power and politics in Russia. The image of Putin as a strongman is dissolved. In its place is a weary figurehead buffeted--if not controlled--by the men who at once advise and deceive him. The regional governors and bureaucratic leaders are immovable objects, far more powerful in their fiefdoms than the president himself. So are the gatekeepers-those officials who guard the pathways to power-on whom Putin depends as much as they rely on him. The tenuous edifice is filled with all of the intrigue and plotting of a Medici court, as enemies of the state are invented and wars begun to justify personal gains, internal rivalries, or one faction's biased advantage. A bestseller in Russia, All the Kremlin's Men is a shocking revisionist portrait of the Putin era and a dazzling reconstruction of the machinations of courtiers running riot.

Author : Andrew Turpin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1788750241

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The Dark Shah Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Author : Heather A. Conley,Ruslan Stefanov,Donatienne Ruy,Martin Vladimirov
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442281127

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The Kremlin Playbook 2 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The Kremlin Playbook 2: The Enablers shows that some countries facilitate or enable Russian malign economic influence to flow through their systems and across Europe. This feeds the Kremlin’s cycle of influence, weakens democratic structures in Europe, and threatens U.S. and transatlantic security.

Author : Regina Smyth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108841207

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Elections, Protest, and Authoritarian Regime Stability Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This comprehensive study of Russian electoral politics shows the vulnerability of Putin's regime as it navigates the risks of voter manipulation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Men
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133499900

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Esquire Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Author : Lowell H. Schwartz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230236936

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Political Warfare against the Kremlin Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Political Warfare against the Kremlin provides a comparative study and holistic review of American and British propaganda policy toward the Soviet Union during the first fifteen years of the Cold War, ranging from the role senior policymakers played in setting propaganda policy to the West's radio broadcasts to the Soviet Union.

Author : Dmitrii Shepilov
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300092067

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The Kremlin's Scholar Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Dmitrii Shepilov (1905-1995), a prominent Soviet leader and member of the Communist Party elite, rose to power under Joseph Stalin in the 1940s and 1950s, then fell into political disgrace after being implicated in a coup attempt against Nikita Khrushchev in 1957. In this remarkable memoir, Shepilov provides an unparalleled account of Soviet politics during this period, as well as first-hand recollections of prominent political leaders including Stalin, Khrushchev, Mao Zedong, Lavrentii Beria, Andrei Zhdanov, and others. Secretary of the Central Committee, editor in chief of Pravda, and director of the Communist Party’s Bureau of Propaganda and Agitation, Shepilov tells his story from the perspective of a true insider. His memoir sheds new light on Soviet relations with China, the aborted coup against Khrushchev, the personal rivalries that drove high-level Soviet politics, and much more. His report--dramatic, opinionated, and engaging--is an important addition to the history of his sparsely documented era.

Author : John Sweeney
Publisher : Random House
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781529199666

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Killer in the Kremlin Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERS 'This swashbuckling book is a furious attack on the Russian president. Killer in the Kremlin traces Putin's bloody career... a life littered with corpses.' - THE TIMES A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine and his assault on Europe. In Killer in the Kremlin, award-winning journalist John Sweeney takes readers from the heart of Putin's Russia to the killing fields of Chechnya, to the embattled cities of an invaded Ukraine. In a disturbing exposé of Putin's sinister ambition, Sweeney draws on thirty years of his own reporting - from the Moscow apartment bombings to the atrocities committed by the Russian Army in Chechnya, to the annexation of Crimea and a confrontation with Putin over the shooting down of flight MH17 - to understand the true extent of Putin's long war. Drawing on eyewitness accounts and compelling testimony from those who have suffered at Putin's hand, we see the heroism of the Russian opposition, the bravery of the Ukrainian resistance, and the brutality with which the Kremlin responds to such acts of defiance, assassinating or locking away its critics, and stopping at nothing to achieve its imperialist aims. In the midst of one of the darkest acts of aggression in modern history - Russia's invasion of Ukraine - this book shines a light on Putin's rule and poses urgent questions about how the world must respond. 'An extraordinarily prescient and fascinating book.' - NIHAL ARTHANAYAKE

Author : David Reynolds,Vladimir Olegovich Pechatnov
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300226829

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The Kremlin Letters Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

A penetrating account of the dynamics of World War II's Grand Alliance through the messages exchanged by the "Big Three" Stalin exchanged more than six hundred messages with Allied leaders Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War. In this riveting volume--the fruit of a unique British-Russian scholarly collaboration--the messages are published and also analyzed within their historical context. Ranging from intimate personal greetings to weighty salvos about diplomacy and strategy, this book offers fascinating new revelations of the political machinations and human stories behind the Allied triumvirate. Edited and narrated by two of the world's leading scholars on World War II diplomacy and based on a decade of research in British, American, and newly available Russian archives, this crucial addition to wartime scholarship illuminates an alliance that really worked while exposing its fractious limits and the issues and egos that set the stage for the Cold War that followed.

Author : Thomas Rid
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780374718657

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Active Measures Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This revelatory and dramatic history of disinformation traces the rise of secret organized deception operations from the interwar period to contemporary internet troll farms We live in the age of disinformation—of organized deception. Spy agencies pour vast resources into hacking, leaking, and forging data, often with the goal of weakening the very foundation of liberal democracy: trust in facts. Thomas Rid, a renowned expert on technology and national security, was one of the first to sound the alarm. More than four months before the 2016 election, he warned that Russian military intelligence was “carefully planning and timing a high-stakes political campaign" to disrupt the democratic process. But as crafty as such so-called active measures have become, they are not new. The story of modern disinformation begins with the post-Russian Revolution clash between communism and capitalism, which would come to define the Cold War. In Active Measures, Rid reveals startling intelligence and security secrets from materials written in more than ten languages across several nations, and from interviews with current and former operatives. He exposes the disturbing yet colorful history of professional, organized lying, revealing for the first time some of the century’s most significant operations—many of them nearly beyond belief. A White Russian ploy backfires and brings down a New York police commissioner; a KGB-engineered, anti-Semitic hate campaign creeps back across the Iron Curtain; the CIA backs a fake publishing empire, run by a former Wehrmacht U-boat commander, that produces Germany’s best jazz magazine. Rid tracks the rise of leaking, and shows how spies began to exploit emerging internet culture many years before WikiLeaks. Finally, he sheds new light on the 2016 election, especially the role of the infamous “troll farm” in St. Petersburg as well as a much more harmful attack that unfolded in the shadows. Active Measures takes the reader on a guided tour deep into a vast hall of mirrors old and new, pointing to a future of engineered polarization, more active and less measured—but also offering the tools to cut through the deception.

Author : William M. Reisinger,Bryon J Moraski
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472130184

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The Regional Roots of Russia's Political Regime Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Insightful analysis of how regional politics shaped the executive branch's ability to retain power and govern under Yeltsin and Putin