The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep: Russia's Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin

Once you accept that the impossible is really possible, what happens in Russia makes perfect sense In December 2013, David Satter became the first American journalist to be expelled from Russia since the Cold War The Moscow Times said it was not surprising he was expelled, it was surprising it took so long Satter is known in Russia for having written that the apartment bombings in 1999, which were blamed on Chechens and brought Putin to power, were actually carried out by the Russian FSB security police In this book, Satter tells the story of the apartment bombings and how Boris Yeltsin presided over the criminalization of Russia, why Vladimir Putin was chosen as his successor, and how Putin has suppressed all opposition while retaining the appearance of a pluralist state As the threat represented by Russia becomes increasingly clear, Satter s description of where Russia is and how it got there will be of vital interest to anyone concerned about the dangers facing the world today. Best Read [ The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep: Russia's Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin ] By [ David Satter ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Succinct, serious, and informative, with a title as good as that of Peter Pomerantsev s Russia book Satter links and explains Yeltsin and the 1999 apartment bombings, the 2002 Moscow theater siege, the 2004 Beslan school siege, and the rise of Putin Lots of names that I will not remember...To understand modern day Russia one has to go back to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the privatization read theft of Russia s resources and industries by Yeltsin and his cronies To avoid being held accountable for their grand larceny he orchestrated the election of Putin who has since furthered the process of turning Russia into a criminal oligarchy and has used terror, murder, corruption and war including Crimea and Ukraine to bolster his position and subdue opposition David Sat To understand modern day Russia one has to ...A fast paced relation of Russian history following the fall of Communism Timeline of Events 25th of December 1991 Gorbatchev resigns 26th of December 1991 the end of the Soviet Union 2nd of January 1992 Yegor Gaidar frees prices In 10 months they rose by factor of 25 to 30 October 1992 privatization starts with distribution of vouchers 21st of September 1993 Yeltsin issued decree number 1400, abolishing the Congress of People s Deputies and the Supreme Soviet The Supreme Sovi A fast paced relation of Russian history following the fall of Communism Timeline of Events 25th of December 1991 Gorbatchev resigns 26th of December 1991 the end of the Soviet Union 2nd of January 1992 Yegor Gaidar frees prices In 10 months they rose by factor of 25 to 30 October 1992 privatization starts with distribution of vouchers 21st of September 1993 Yeltsin issued decree number 1400, abolishing the Congress of People s Deputies and the Supreme Soviet The Supreme Soviet voted Alexander Rutskoi president 3rd of October 1993 The defenders of the S...Succinct and terrifying look into the inner workings of the Putin and Yeltsin regimes Ukraine, the elections, and Putin himself make a lotsense after reading this book.This book is aptly named A crash course history on Russia s post Soviet era, much of it containing assertions so shocking to the Western conscience that I found myself often checking end notes and following up with Google searches so I could find the source material But they were sound, and David Satter himself...A short, riveting, well sourced if somewhat conspiracy minded account of the corruption and utter moral depravity of the Yeltsin and Putin years, and the road to dictatorship in Russa.Cp.Satter investigated the apartment bombings that catapulted Putin to power in Russia and unlike others who also investigated this crime, lived to tell about it This book recaps a tiny bit of that investigation Its primary focus was describing the absolute corruption that took place when Yeltsin and Putin tried to fix Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union While reading the news about Trump and his associate s ties to Russia, I always want to knowabout how Putin rose to power and how Satter investigated the apartment bombings that catapulted Putin to power in Russia and unlike others who also investigated this crime, lived to tell about it This book recaps a tiny bit of that investigation Its primary focus was describing the absolute corruption that took place when Yeltsin and Putin tried to fix Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union While reading the news about Trump and his associate s ties to Russia, I always want to knowabout how Putin rose to power and how close his ties to the Russian Oligarchs are This book does a great job of addressing these questions I have read several books on Putin s rise to power that mention how the Oligarchs came to be in control of the country, but this book unquestionably does the best job explaining how the fall of the Soviet Union put the bulk of government resources in the private hands of a ...An excellent and chilling read The page which most impressed me, as I had not heard these details before, was Page 157 Among the false reports intended to stoke nationalist hysteria were the story of a three year old boy who was allegedly tortured and crucified by the Ukrainian military in Slaviansk, a report on the raising of the levels of the Lopan and Kharkov rivers so that NATO submarines could reach Donetsk, a report on the cancellation of the May 9 World War II commemoration in Kiev and An ex...This is an easy to read account of modern Russia s history The most important events that lead to the 2nd Chechen War, and to the annexation of Crimea, along with the disappearances and murders of famous dissident all chronicled here The author, David Satter,...A terse, already outdated recitation of facts that suffers from all the flaws of book length works authored by journalists There are careless errors Otto Pohl, not Paul Otto that call into question both...

• English
• 03 February 2017
David Satter
• Hardcover
• 240 pages
• 0300211422
• David Satter
• The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep: Russia's Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin