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A penetrating investigation into how the KGB rose from the ashes of the Soviet Union and reinvented itself at the heart of the Russian state during Vladimir Putin's rule
Author : Andrei Soldatov
Publisher : Public Affairs
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1586488023
A penetrating investigation into how the KGB rose from the ashes of the Soviet Union and reinvented itself at the heart of the Russian state during Vladimir Putin's rule
Author : Andrei Soldatov
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 17,48 MB
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1586489232
In The New Nobility, two courageous Russian investigative journalists open up the closed and murky world of the Russian Federal Security Service. While Vladimir Putin has been president and prime minister of Russia, the Kremlin has deployed the security services to intimidate the political opposition, reassert the power of the state, and carry out assassinations overseas. At the same time, its agents and spies were put beyond public accountability and blessed with the prestige, benefits, and legitimacy lost since the Soviet collapse. The security services have played a central -- and often mysterious -- role at key turning points in Russia during these tumultuous years: from the Moscow apartment house bombings and theater siege, to the war in Chechnya and the Beslan massacre. The security services are not all-powerful; they have made clumsy and sometimes catastrophic blunders. But what is clear is that after the chaotic 1990s, when they were sidelined, they have made a remarkable return to power, abetted by their most famous alumnus, Putin.
Author : John Wien Forney
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 39,36 MB
Release : 2024-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385454816
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
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File Size : 10,16 MB
Release : 1881
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Author : John Wien Forney
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Page : pages
File Size : 29,83 MB
Release : 1881
Category : Nobility
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Author : Andreĭ Soldatov
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Page : pages
File Size : 15,28 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Intelligence service
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Author : John Wien Forney
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Page : 410 pages
File Size : 22,99 MB
Release : 1881
Category : American fiction
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Author : Robert E. Jones
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 25,47 MB
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1400872146
Catherine the Great's treatment of the Russian nobility has usually been regarded as dictated by court politics or her personal predilections. Citing new archival sources, Robert Jones shows that her redefinition and reorganization of the Russian nobility were in fact motivated by reasons of state. In 1762, Peter III had "emancipated" the nobility from obligatory state service, and in the early years of her reign Catherine attempted to govern Russia through a bureaucratic administration. Although this threatened the provincial nobles with social and economic decline, the government was oblivious to their plight until the peasant revolt of 1773-1775 convinced Catherine that she could not provide Russia with a government capable of defending and promoting the national interest without them. This realization led to the formation of a new alliance between the state and the nobility, based on a mutual fear of peasant revolt and expressed first in the provincial reforms of 1775 and finally in Catherine's Charter to the Nobility of 1785. In the 1760's Catherine had hoped to forestall peasant uprisings by improving the lot of the serfs and limiting the authority of the serf-owners. But faced with the choice between controlling the serfs in a way open to abuses and eliminating abuses in a way that might lead to loss of control, Catherine chose the former. Her Charter committed the state to the preservation of serfdom and the reactionary ancien régime. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Benedick WHIPEM (pseud.)
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Page : 356 pages
File Size : 10,65 MB
Release : 1867
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Author : John Wien Forney
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 2014-02-25
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ISBN : 9781293738771
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