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Review: Russians Among Us – Sleeper Cells & The Hunt for Putin’s Agents – by Gordon Correra
I’ve read Gordon Correra’s previous work in espionage literature and for this reason I was drawn to seek out this new offering. In the current climate of the Russian invasion of Ukraine under ex KGB spy, Vladimir Putin, I felt that this relatively recent work would highlight some of the ongoing dangers of Russian spies… Continue reading
Alexander Litvinenko, Alexander Poteyev, CIA, cold war, Communist, coomunism, DOnald Trump, espionage, FBI, FSB, Gordon Correra, GRU, illegals, KGB, London, mi6, Novichok, Polonium, Putin, Russia, Russian, Salisbury, Sergei Skripal, sleeper cells, Soviet Union, The Americans, the west, U.K., Ukraine, USA, Vladimir Putin, war -
Review: Memoirs – by Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev was one of the most influential and critical figures of the twentieth century. When I was growing up in the 1980s he was part os a set of international world leaders that seemingly had much more influence over people than the political leaders of today. Gorbachev was the last leader of he Soviet… Continue reading
Baltic States, Belorussia, Berlin Wall, Boris Yeltsin, cold war, Communism, Communist, Crimea, espionage, François Mitterand, glasnost, Gorbachev, KGB, Mad, Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, Military, NATO, Nomenclatura, perestroika, Politburo, Politics, Putin, Ronald Reagan, Russia, Soviet Union, Stalin, Ukraine, USSR, Vladmir Putin, Warsaw Pact, World Leader -
Review: Putin’s People – How the KGB took back Russia and then took on The West – by Catherine Belton
The author of this, the best study of Vladimir Putin that I have read to date, is Catherine Belton, a Financial Times journalist that was based in Moscow. It is a comprehensive study of the rise of Putin and how he has cemented a Tsar-like power as head of the New Russia. We go from… Continue reading
Belton, Boris Berezovsky, Boris Yeltsin, Brexit, Capitalism, Catherine Belton, cold war, Communism, Conservative, Conservative Party, Conservatives, corruption, crime, DOnald Trump, Dostoyevsky, espionage, Financial Times, FSB, Gangster, KGB, Kremlin, London, Londongrad, mafia, Mikhail Khodorkhovsky, Moscoow, Moscow, oligarch, Organised Crime, organized crime, Panama Papers, Putin, Roman Abramovich, Russia, Russian Mafia, siloviki, Soviet Union, spy, St Petersburg, Tambov, Tambov Group, Trump, Trump Towers, Tsar, U.K., Ukraine, USA, USSR, Vladimir Putin -
Review: The Last Empire – The Final Days of the Soviet Union – by Serhii Plokhy
When the Soviet Union ended and thus the Cold War ended on Christmas Day 1991, it was probably one of the biggest political events of my lifetime. This well-researched, detailed book, by Ukrainian author Serhii Plokhy, details the last 18 months of the Soviet Union’s existence. After USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev’s revolutionary policies of Glasnost… Continue reading
AMerica, August 1991, August coup, Baltics, Boris Yeltsin, CIS, cold war, Commonwealth of Independent States, Communism, Crimea, Dacha, domino effect, end of cold war, Estonia, fall of communism, george bush, George H.W. Bush, glasnost, Gorbachev, KGB, Latvia, Leonid Kravchuk, Lithuania, Mikhail Gorbachev, Party Centre, perestroika, President Bush, Russia, serhii plokhy, Soviet Union, the last empire, Ukraine, USA, USSR, Yugoslavia -
Review: Winter Is Coming – Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped – by Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov, former world chess champion, is clearly an intelligent man. Having retired from the game he has entered the world of politics and is a key human rights activist. The book explores his frustrations with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. It is a study of Putin and the way in which he has eroded the… Continue reading
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Review: 2017 War With Russia: An Urgent Warning from Senior Military Command – by General Sir Richard Shirreff
When I first purchased this book I thought it would be a work of non-fiction, but instead I discovered it was actually fiction. The author, a former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, was, in his employment, well-used to war-gaming scenarios with, in particular, Russia. This book, aimed at the general public, introduces many real aspects… Continue reading
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