TY - BOOK AU - Belton,Catherine TI - Putin's people: how the KGB took back Russia and then took on the West SN - 9781250787323 AV - 338 DK 510.763 B453p 2021 U1 - 947.086/4 PY - 2021/// CY - New York PB - Picador : , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, KW - Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, KW - Soviet Union KW - Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti. KW - Unión Soviética. KW - Comité para la Seguridad del Estado KW - Presidents KW - Russia (Federation) KW - Biography KW - Presidentes KW - Rusia (Federación) KW - Politics and government KW - Política y gobierno KW - Relaciones exteriores KW - United States KW - Foreign relations KW - Kremlin (Moscow, Russia) KW - History KW - Moscú (Rusia) KW - Historia N1 - Originally published in 2020 by William Collins, Great Britain; Includes bibliographical references (pages 505-596) and index; Part one. 'Operation Luch' -- Inside job -- 'The tip of an iceberg' -- Operation Successor: 'It was already after midnight' -- 'Children's toys in pools of mud' -- Part two. 'The inner circle made him' -- 'Operation Energy' -- Out of terror, an imperial awakening -- 'Appetite comes during eating' -- Part three. Obschak -- Londongrad -- The battle begins -- Black cash -- Soft power in an iron fist: 'I call them the Orthodox Taliban' -- The network and Donald Trump N2 - A chilling and revelatory expose of the KGB's renaissance, Putin's rise to power, and how Russian black cash is subverting the world. In Putin's People, former Moscow correspondent and investigative journalist Catherine Belton reveals the untold story of how Vladimir Putin and his entourage of KGB men seized power in Russia and built a new league of oligarchs. Through exclusive interviews with key inside players, Belton tells how Putin's people conducted their relentless seizure of private companies, took over the economy, siphoned billions, blurred the lines between organized crime and political powers, shut down opponents, and then used their riches and power to extend influence in the West. In a story that ranges from Moscow to London, Switzerland and Trump's America, Putin's People is a gripping and terrifying account of how hopes for the new Russia went astray, with stark consequences for its inhabitants and, increasingly, the world ER -