Blowing up Russia-Alexander Litvinenko (Terrorism-Chechnya-Islam-Soviet-Communism)

BOTH IN ENGLISH AND RUSSIANrnrnBook DescriptionrnBlowing up Russia contains the devastating attack of ex-KGB rnofficer Alexander Litvinenko against his former superiors. He was poisoined rnin London with a lethal dose of radio-active Polonium 210 in November 2006. rnIn association with academic Yuri Felshtinsky, he exposes in a meticulous rnstudy how lethal KGB methods were used to catapult Vladimir Putin into rnpower as one of the most popular Russian leaders ever to be elected. Banned rnin Russia, based on Litvinenko\'s twenty year\'s of insider knowledge of rnRussia\'s secret campaigns, eloquently written, Blowing up Russia shows how rnthe successors of the KGB were able to survive after being cut loose from rncommunism. Returning to old-style terror and war, they claimed a `Russian rnway\' of government. After reading Litvinenko\'s and Felshtinsky\'s findings, rnthere seems little doubt that behind the pretence of democracy the rnsuccessor of the KGB has regained its absolute control over the Russian rnFederation. rnrnSynopsisrnVividly written and based on Litvinenko\'s 20 year\'s of insider\'s knowledge of Russian spy campaigns and Yuri Felshtinsky\'s comprehensive academic knowledge, "Blowing up Russia" is a meticulous and gripping story how the secret organs of the Russian state are out of control and plotting a return to Russia as a state of terror. Writing about his co-author, Yuri Felshtinsky recounts how the banning of their book in Russia caused 3 related deaths. rnrnFrom the PublisherrnIn this first British publication, Yuri Felshtinsky writes how rnin 1999 he contacted Alexander Litvinenko asking for help investigating the rnMoscow apartment-block bombings that had happened in September that year. rnWhile they pursued their investigations over the years, three people who rnassisted them in Russia were violently killed--two were shot, one was rnpoisoned. When they first attempted to publish their findings in Russian, rnthe 5000 copies of the book\'s print-run were confiscated on the road from rnLatvia to Moscow. rnrnAbout the AuthorrnAlexander Litvinenko served in the Russian military for more rnthan 20 years achieving the ranks of Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1999 he was rnarrested and imprisoned on charges that were later dismissed. After rncontinuing further charges (equally dismissed), he escaped from Russia, and rnlived with his family in Great Britain, where he was granted political rnasylum in 2001. rnYuri Felshtinsky studied studied history at Brandeis University and Rutgers rnUniversity, where he received his Ph.D. He lives in Boston and is the rnauthor of several books on Russia. He was one of the last people to speak rnto Litvinenko hours before he succumbed to radio-active poisoning by rnPolonium 210 . He converted to Islam few days before his death.