Blowing up Russia : the secret plot to bring back KGB terror : acts of terror, abductions, and contract killings organized by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation / Alexander Litvinenko ; Yuri Felshtinsky ; translated from the Russian by Geoffrey Andrews and Co.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Felʹshtinskiĭ, I︠U︡riĭ, 1956-

Contributor:

Litvinenko, Alexander, 1962-2006.

Standardized Title:

FSB vzryvaet Rossi͡u. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Intelligence service--Russia (Federation).

Intelligence service.

Russia (Federation).

Secret service--Russia (Federation).

Secret service.

Political violence--Russia (Federation).

Political violence.

State-sponsored terrorism--Russia (Federation).

State-sponsored terrorism.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 322 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Encounter Books, 2007.

Summary:

Blowing Up Russia contains the allegations of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko against his former spymasters in Moscow which led to his being murdered in London in November 2006. In the book he and historian Yuri Felshtinsky detail how since 1999 the Russian secret service has been hatching a plot to return to the terror that was the hallmark of the KGB. Vividly written and based on Litvinenko's 20 years of insider knowledge of Russian spy campaigns, Blowing Up Russia describes how the successor of the KGB fabricated terrorist attacks and launched a war. Writing about Litvinenko, the surviving co-author recounts how the banning of the book in Russia led to three earlier deaths.

Contents:

The FSB foments war

The security services run riot

Moscow detectives take on the FSB

Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev

Fiasco in Ryazan

Mass terror

The FSB against the Russian people

Freelance special operations groups

Contract killings

Abductions

Reform or dissolution?

The FSB in power.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781594032011

1594032017

OCLC:

84837819