From Red Terror to Terrorist State

Russia's Secret Service and Its Fight for World Domination: from Felix Dzerzhinsky to Vladimir Putin: 2017-202?

Yuri Felshtinsky, Vladimir Popov

• Publisher: Gibson Square
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781783342501
• eBook ISBN: 9781783342594
• Topic: Politik & Internationale Beziehungen
• Subtopic: Geheimdienst & Spionage

'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.

Table of contents

• Praise
• List of Abbreviations
• What’s in a Name? Cheka to FSB
• Part One: The Cheka and the Soviet Union
• From Red Terror to Terrorist State
• 1: Formation of the Soviet Government
• 2: Felix Dzerzhinsky’s Conspiracy
• 3: The First Attempt to Assassinate Lenin
• 4: Lenin’s Resurgence
• 5: Dzerzhinsky’s Elimination of Lenin
• 6: Lenin’s Premature Death (Felix Dzerzhinsky)
• 7: Control over the Lubyanka
• 8: The Doctor’s Plot and the Jewish Question
• 9: Stalin’s Premature Death (Lavrenty Beria)
• 10: Yevgeny Pitovranov, the Phoenix Rises
• 11: The KGB and Soviet Intellectuals
• 12: Russian Nationalism, the New Hymn
• 13: Pitovranov’s Special Operation in Afghanistan
• 14: Angola, the KGB’s Foreign Cash Cow
• 15: The Death of Yuri Andropov
• 16: The Doomsday Scenario
• Part Two: The Cheka’s Russian World
• 1: State Committee on the State of Emergency (August, 1991)
• 2: Yeltsin’s Impeachment (September, 1993)
• 3: Presidential Elections (March, 1996)
• 4: The Lubyanka Seizes the Kremlin (April, 2000)
• 5: The Russian-Orthodox Church of Spies
• 6: The Russkiy Mir
• 7: Russia’s Fifth International
• 8: Icebreaker Donald Trump
• 9: War on Foreign Territory
• Conclusion