{"product_id":"putins-people-how-the-kgb-took-back-russia-and-then-took-on-the-west-9780374238711","title":"Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West","description":"\u003cp\u003eA New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller  A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Named a best book of the year by The Economist  Financial Times  New Statesman  The Telegraph  \"Putins People will surely now become the definitive account of the rise of Putin and Putinism.\" Anne Applebaum  The Atlantic  \"This riveting  immaculately researched book is arguably the best single volume written about Putin  the people around him and perhaps even about contemporary Russia itself in the past three decades.\" Peter Frankopan  Financial Times  Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine. In recent years  Vladimir Putins Russia has waged a concerted campaign to expand its influence and undermine Western institutions. But how and why did all this come about  and who has orchestrated it?  In Putins People  the investigative journalist and former Moscow correspondent Catherine Belton reveals the untold story of how Vladimir Putin and the small group of KGB men surrounding him rose to power and looted their country. Delving deep into the workings of Putins Kremlin  Belton accesses key inside players to reveal how Putin replaced the freewheeling tycoons of the Yeltsin era with a new generation of loyal oligarchs  who in turn subverted Russias economy and legal system and extended the Kremlins reach into the United States and Europe. The result is a chilling and revelatory expos of the KGBs revanchea story that begins in the murk of the Soviet collapse  when networks of operatives were able to siphon billions of dollars out of state enterprises and move their spoils into the West. Putin and his allies subsequently completed the agenda  reasserting Russian power while taking control of the economy for themselves  suppressing independent voices  and launching covert influence operations abroad.  Ranging from Moscow and London to Switzerland and Brooklyns Brighton Beachand assembling a colorful cast of characters to matchPutins People is the definitive account of how hopes for the new Russia went astray  with stark consequences for its inhabitants and  increasingly  the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67600484433973,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374238715","price":24.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374238711.jpg?v=1790972128","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/putins-people-how-the-kgb-took-back-russia-and-then-took-on-the-west-9780374238711","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}