Putin's People

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Belton, Catherine 저자(글)

Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 2020년 06월 23일

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A 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

"[Putin's 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 Putin’s 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 Putin’s 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 Putin’s 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 Russia’s economy and legal system and extended the Kremlin's reach into the United States and Europe. The result is a chilling and revelatory exposé of the KGB’s revanche―a 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 Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach―and assembling a colorful cast of characters to match―Putin’s People is the definitive account of how hopes for the new Russia went astray, with stark consequences for its inhabitants and, increasingly, the world.

작가정보

저자(글) Belton, Catherine

현직 로이터 특파원으로 런던에 거주하고 있다. 과거 『파이낸셜 타임스』의 모스크바 통신원으로 오래 근무했으며, 『비즈니스위크』 와 『모스크바 타임스』에 러시아 소식을 보도한 바 있다. 2008년에 영국 언론상에서 올해의 비즈니스 언론인 부문 후보에 올랐다. 『푸틴의 사람들』은 『선데이 타임스』 베스트셀러를 기록했으며, 『더 타임스』, 『파이낸셜 타임스』, 『뉴 스테이츠먼』, 『데일리 텔레그래프』, 『이코노미스트』 등에서 올해의 책으로 선정되었다.

목차

• List of Illustrations
  Dramatis Personae
  Prologue
  
  Part One
  1 'Operation Luch'
  2 Inside Job
  3 'The Tip of an Iceberg'
  4 Operation Successor: 'It Was Already After Midnight'
  5 'Children's Toys in Pools of Mud'
  
  Part Two
  6 'The Inner Circle Made Him'
  7 'Operation Energy'
  8 Out of Terror, an Imperial Awakening
  9 'Appetite Comes During Eating'
  
  Part Three
  10 Obschak
  11 Londongrad
  12 The Battle Begins
  13 Black Cash
  14 Soft Power in an Iron Fist: 'I Call Them the Orthodox Taliban'
  15 The Network and Donald Trump
  
  Epilogue
  Acknowledgements
  Notes
  Index

기본정보

ISBN	9780374238711 ( 0374238715 )
발행(출시)일자	2020년 06월 23일
쪽수	640쪽
크기	157 * 231 * 53 mm / 952 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어