Blowing up Russia: The Secret KGB Plot that Delivered Russia to Putin (Used Paperback) - Yuri Felshtinsky, Alexander Litvinenko

Blowing up Russia exposes the shocking plot hatched in 1999 that swept Vladimir Putin -- then still and unknown civil servant -- into power at his first presidential election. IN spell-binding detail it shows how the Russian secret service orchestrated fake Islamist attacks on Moscow apartment buildings and contrived a phony war with Chechnya to make Putin appear a conquering hero.

Britian's intelligence agency MI6 assessed that it was his betrayal of secrets that made the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko, co-author of this book, a matter of time. On publication, Blowing Up Russia was instantly banned and placed on the Russian index of 'extremist literature'. A first since Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, it happened even though Litvinenko's view of Vladimir Putin - his one-time commanding officer - was only believed in the West after he was murdered.

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