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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: Behind The Enigma – The Authorised History of GCHQ – Britain’s Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency – by John Ferris
This is a weighty tome (800 plus pages) and the authoritative history of perhaps the least glamorous of the U.K.’s principal security services. However, the facts illustrated in this book clearly demonstrates the critical role GCHQ plays in national security and perhaps one could argue is more relevant and more important than its more glamorous… Continue reading
Alan Turing, Arabic, Argentina, Australia, Bletchley Park, Canada, Cheltenham, China, Chinese, COMINT, Commonwealth, computers, cryptanalytic, cryptography, cyberattack, cybersecurity, cyberwarfare, Enigma, espionage, Falklands, Five Eyes, GCHQ, German, Germany, hacking, HUMINT, indonesia, intelligence, Islam, islamic jihad, Israel, Jihad, Jihadists, John Ferris, Konfrontasi, languages, linguists, Mandarin Chinese, maths, MI5, mi6, Military, National Secuirty Agency, Nazi, New Zealand, NSA, Palestine, Russia, Salafi, SIGINT, Soviet Union, spy, tech warfare, Translation, U.K., UKUSA, United Kingdom, United STates of America, USA, USSR, World War 2 -
Review: Stasiland – Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall – by Anna Funder
The Stasi were the brutal secret police in the GDR (German Democratic Republic) or East Germany. After the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, East and West Germany once again became reunited. Funder is an Australian journalist who, in this award-winning book, explores the Stasi at work… Continue reading
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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
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