: Yuri Felshtinsky, Vladimir Popov
: From Red Terror to Terrorist State Russia's Secret Service and Its Fight for World Domination: from Felix Dzerzhinsky to Vladimir Putin
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'Detail worthy of a John le Carre novel.' Telegraph The history of modern Russia traditionally has Communism at its centre: Lenin defines its rise, Gorbachev its fall, and Putin its aftermath. In this radical new history, Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Popov, however, introduce a new historical axis: the Cheka-the Bolsheviks' nebulous revolutionary intelligence service. Wrapped around the Party in a fight to the death from 1918 under its first head Felix Dzerzhinsky, only Stalin was able to resist its stranglehold at the cost of enormous bloodshed. Luring Russia into submission over less than a century, its murder-plots and unrivalled scheming culminated in the capture of the Kremlin in 2000. Drawing on Popov's secret documents of over two decades as a senior officer in one of the KGB's key covert sections, and on Felshtinsky's encyclopedic knowledge of Russian state archives open in the 1990s, little-known sources, and access to leading oligarchs, a new Russian history emerges. The story they tell is often unexpected while introducing a new cast of characters still of great influence-potentially surpassing Lenin's role-on our world today. From Red Terror to Terrorist State is the first complete history of the Cheka. Written from the inside, it fundamentally transforms our understanding of Russia and rethinks the way today's Kremlin views itself and the rest of the world. Animated by lifelong study, this authoritative narrative by two exceptional Russian-intelligence experts presents ground-breaking new insights based on an unrivalled wealth of new factual details.

Yuri Felshtinsky is a historian of the Russian secret service with close ties to leading defectors. He co-authored bestseller Blowing Up Russia (Gibson Square) with poisoned KGB Lt-Colonel Alexander Litvinenko, and his books have been published in twenty-two languages. He was a Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and was the first US citizen to receive a doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of History. He has appeared as news commentator on MSNBC, NPR, PBS, BBC and Sky TV, and in British and European media such as the Telegraph, Spectator, New European, Brussels Times, Daily Mail, el Mundo, el Pais, Die Zeit, L'Express, Svenska Dagbladet, Washington Post.

List of Abbreviations


 

 

 

 

AFB             Federal Security Agency

APN            Soviet Press Agency Novosti

APS             Apparatus for Seconded Personnel (see also ARO), 1998-

ARCCF       American-Russian Cultural Cooperation Foundation

ARO            Active Reserve Officers, 1955 (see also APS), 1953-1998

ASEM         Asia-Europe Meeting

AU              American University

 

BIS              Security Information Service—national intelligence agency of the Czech Republic

 

CC               Central Committee

CEC            Committee for External Communications

CNI             Center for the National Interest

CPG            Communist Party of Germany

CPR            Center for Public Relations of the KGB/FSB

CPSU          Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1912-1991

 

DECR         Department of External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church

DoJ              US Department of Justice

 

ETIRC        European Technology and Investment Research Centers

 

FARA          Foreign Agent Registration Act

FSB             Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, 1995-

FSK             Federal Counterintelligence Service of the Russian Federation, 1993-1995

 

GDR           German Democratic Republic (East Germany), 1949-1990

GITIS          State Institute of Theater Arts

GKU           Main Control Directorate

GPU            State Political Directorate, 1922-1923

GRU           Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Soviet Army, 1918-1992

GUGB         Chief Directorate of State Security, 1934-1941

GULAG      Administration of the Soviet Forced-Labor Camps

 

JAC             Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee

JV                Joint venture

 

IMEMO      Institute of Global Economics and International Relations

INO             Foreign Department of the OGPU

IRC             Initiative for Russian Culture

ISAA           Institute of Strategic Assessment and Analysis

 

KGB            Committee of State Security

KMO           Soviet Committee of Youth Organizations

Komsomol   The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League

KRO           Congress of Russian Communities

 

LG              Literaturnaya Gazeta (literary gazette), leading weekly

 

MB              Ministry of Security

MBVD         Ministry of Security and Internal Affairs of the RSFSR

MCD           Main Control Department

MFA            Ministry of Foreign Affairs

MGB           Ministry of State Security

MISI            Moscow Institute of Civil Engineering

MOC           International Olympic Committee

MPLA         People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola

MSB            Inter-Republican Security Service

MSIIR         Moscow State Institute of International Relations

MSU            Moscow State University

MUR           Moscow Criminal Investigations Department

MVD           Ministry of Internal Affairs

 

NDR           Our Home is Russia, 1995-2006

NFA            People’s Front of Azerbaijan

NGO           Non-governmental organization

NKGB         People’s Commissariat of State Security

NKVD        People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs

NRA            National Rifle Association

NTS             National Alliance of Russian Solidarists

NTV            Independent TV Channel (Moscow)

 

OECD         Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

OGPU         Joint State Political Directorate, 1923-1934

OPA            Office of the Presidential Affairs

ODP            Office of Domestic Policy

ORT            Public Russian Television, 1995-2002

OTRK         Ostankino TV and Radio Complex (Moscow)

 

OVR            Political Party Fatherland—All Russia, 1998-2002

 

PDPA          People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan

PFU            Patrice Lumumba Peoples’ Friendship University

PMR            Pridnestrovian [Transnistrian] Moldavian Republic

PR               Public Relations

PGU            First Chief Directorate of the KGB, 1920-1991

 

RAU            Russian-American University

RISR           Russian Institute for Strategic Research

RFPF          Russian Federal Property Fund

RNE            Russian National Unity

ROCA         Russian Orthodox Church Abroad

RSFSR        Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, 1917-1991

RSKhD       Russian Student Christian Movement

RUBOP       Regional Department for Combating Organized Crime

RT               Russia Today TV Channel

 

SALTT        Strategy& Leadership in Transformational Times

SBP             Presidential Security Service, 1993-

SCSE           State Committee on the State of Emergency (alsoGKChP), August 1991

SMERSH    Military counterintelligence serviceSmert’ shpionam (‘death to spies’)

SNK            Council of People’s Commissars, the government, 1917-1946

SR               Socialist-Revolutionaries

SS                Schutzstaffel, a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany

SS                Secret Service

SVR             Foreign Intelligence Service, 1991-

 

TASS           Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union

 

UES            Unified Energy System of...