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Yuri Felshtinsky: This is a very important point. What do the oligarchs have? They have money. You hear everywhere, The oligarchs stole. From whom? Imagine [that] everything is nationalized and seventy-five years passes, and then privatization begins. Most people don't believe in it. Most people expect everything to be nationalized again. People are conservative. They reason, I don't have very much. How can I risk my last crumb? The government will come and take it away. For this reason everything is undervalued.
Yuri Felshtinsky is a Russian historian who lives in the United States. In 1978, he immigrated to the U.S. and continued his study of history, first at Brandeis University and later at Rutgers, where he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (History). In 1993, he successfully defended his doctoral thesis at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and became the first citizen of a foreign state to be awarded a doctoral degree in Russia. He has compiled and edited several dozen volumes of archival documents and is the author of several books, including 1‘The Bolsheviks and the Left SRSl’ (1985), /‘Towards a History of Our Isolation ’ (1988), a‘The Failure of World Revolutionb’ (1991) and R‘Big Bosses ’ (1999).
hardcover, by Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Pribylovsky omdash; The twentieth century has entered history as an age of tyrants. Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Mao Zedong. In The Corporation, Yuri Felshtinsky exposes a new type of tyrant in Vladimir Putin. While dictators of the past have been self-motivated and self-appointed, Putin was handpicked for power by Russia’s[...]
Blowing Up Russia is Litvinenko's posthumous revenge. The book, financed by Berezovsky, was confiscated by the Russian authorities when first published, and is now on sale for the first time in the UK, updated by its co-author, Yuri Felshtinsky. It pulls no punches in accusing the successor organisation of the KGB of fabricating terrorist attacks in Russia in 1999, arguing they were blamed on the Chechens as an excuse to launch the second Chechnya war.
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