Yuri Felshtinsky

La biografía más completa y documentada del autor de 1984 y Rebelión en la granjaPresentamos la primera biografía de George Orwell traducida del ruso, en la que se incorporan nuevos documentos de archivo y una perspectiva unica sobre la vida y obra de Orwell. En esta obra, Yuri Felshtinsky ofrece un analisis detallado de las novelas, ensayos, articulos y cartas del emblematico autor del siglo xx, y pone especial enfasis en su impacto en la literatura y la politica mundial. Prestando especial atencion a los matices ruso-sovieticos de su obra, esa biografia ofrece una comprension mas profunda de su proceso creativo y sus relaciones personales y profesionales.

El estudio definitivo sobre el intelectual más influyente del siglo XXLa literatura de George Orwell se ha convertido en un fenómeno de masas mundial. Hay pocas estanterías en las que falten sus dos clasicos intemporales: la parabola de la revolucion bolchevique Rebelion en la granja y la distopia sobre el Gran Hermano del Estado sovietico, 1984. Pero no tanta gente sabe que Orwell, que en vida fue mucho mas que un autor bestseller, solo se hizo famoso poco antes de su muerte.El academico Yuri Felshtinsky ha llevado a cabo un estudio minucioso de las novelas, libros periodisticos, ensayos, articulos y cartas de Orwell para reconstruir los principales episodios de su biografia. Al poner a dialogar vida y obra, este libro permite formarse una idea exhaustiva de su proceso creativo y de como Eric Arthur Blair, el hombre detras del seudonimo, llego a ser el mito que hoy es.La primera biografia del escritor publicada en ruso ha venido a colmar las lagunas de las ediciones anteriores, especialmente profundas en Rusia, al haberse tratado de un autor proscrito y olvidado por la URSS. George Orwell: vida, obra, tiempo se diferencia del resto de biografias en que reune una serie de nuevos fondos documentales de archivo, entre ellos un epistolario inedito, para aportar una mirada diferente sobre un hombre que a la vez amo y odio el mundo que le rodeaba y el tiempo que le toco vivir.Evitando tanto la idealizacion como el prejuicio, Felshtinsky ha escrito el retrato mas completo hasta la fecha del periodista y ensayista que ha pasado a los anales de la literatura universal como el mas perspicaz critico del totalitarismo.

Crooks and killers. Vladimir Bukovsky, ObserverThe Age of Assassins describes in gripping detail how Vladimir Putin destroyed democracy in Russia after his rise to President from an unpromising start as a Berlin KGB officer exporting East-German lingerie to supplement his income. Under the guise of manipulated elections, he and a few hundred secret service agents looted Russias wealth through fake news and sophisticated cheating, co-operation with the Russian mafia and oligarchs, right up to murder with state-of-the-art poisons that leave no trace. Yuri Felshtinsky previously wrote Blowing up Russia with Alexander Litvinenko, whose 2006 assassination Vladimir Putin probably approved according to the Litvinenko Public Inquiry of 20 January 2016. Vladimir Pribylovsky was found dead a week before the Litvinenko Inquiry Report came out.

Detail worthy of a John le Carre novel. Telegraph The history of modern Russia traditionally has Communism at its centre: Lenin defines its rise, Gorbachev its fall, and Putin its aftermath. In this radical new history, Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Popov, however, introduce a new historical axis: the Chekathe Bolsheviks nebulous revolutionary intelligence service. Wrapped around the Party in a fight to the death from 1918 under its first head Felix Dzerzhinsky, only Stalin was able to resist its stranglehold at the cost of enormous bloodshed. Luring Russia into submission over less than a century, its murder-plots and unrivalled scheming culminated in the capture of the Kremlin in 2000. Drawing on Popovs secret documents of over two decades as a senior officer in one of the KGBs key covert sections, and on Felshtinskys encyclopedic knowledge of Russian state archives open in the 1990s, little-known sources, and access to leading oligarchs, a new Russian history emerges. The story they tell is often unexpected while introducing a new cast of characters still of great influencepotentially surpassing Lenins roleon our world today. From Red Terror to Terrorist State is the first complete history of the Cheka. Written from the inside, it fundamentally transforms our understanding of Russia and rethinks the way todays Kremlin views itself and the rest of the world. Animated by lifelong study, this authoritative narrative by two exceptional Russian-intelligence experts presents ground-breaking new insights based on an unrivalled wealth of new factual details.

The KGB Plays Chess is a unique book. For the first time it opens to us some of the most secret pages of the history of chess. The battles about which you will read in this book are not between chess masters sitting at the chess board, but between the powerful Soviet secret police, known as the KGB, on the one hand, and several brave individuals, on the other. Their names are famous in the chess world: Viktor Kortschnoi, Boris Spassky, Boris Gulko and Garry Kasparov became subjects of constant pressure, blackmail and persecution in the USSR. Their victories at the chess board were achieved despite this victimization.Unlike in other books, this story has two perspectives. The victim and the persecutor, the hunted and the hunter, all describe in their own words the very same events. One side is represented by the famous Russian chess players Viktor Kortschnoi and Boris Gulko. For many years they fought against a powerful system, and at the end they were triumphant. The Soviet Union collapsed and they got what they were fighting for: their freedom. Former KGB Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Popov, who left Russia in 1996 and now lives in Canada, was one of those who had worked all his life for the KGB and was responsible for the sport sector of the USSR. It is only now for the first time that he has decided to tell the reader his story of the KGBs involvement in Soviet Sports. This is his first book, and it is not only full of sensations, but it also dares to name names of secret KGB agents previously known only as famous chess masters, sportsmen or sport officials. Just a few short years ago a book like this would have been unimaginable. Read this book. It is not only about chess. It is about glorious victory of the great chess masters over the forces of darkness.Excerpts, including the Table of Contents and the Foreword, of most Russell Enterprises books are available at http://russell-enterprises.com/excerptsdownloads.html.

El estudio definitivo sobre el intelectual más influyente del siglo XXLa literatura de George Orwell se ha convertido en un fenómeno de masas mundial. Hay pocas estanterías en las que falten sus dos clasicos intemporales: la parabola de la revolucion bolchevique Rebelion en la granja y la distopia sobre el Gran Hermano del Estado sovietico, 1984. Pero no tanta gente sabe que Orwell, que en vida fue mucho mas que un autor bestseller, solo se hizo famoso poco antes de su muerte.El academico Yuri Felshtinsky ha llevado a cabo un estudio minucioso de las novelas, libros periodisticos, ensayos, articulos y cartas de Orwell para reconstruir los principales episodios de su biografia. Al poner a dialogar vida y obra, este libro permite formarse una idea exhaustiva de su proceso creativo y de como Eric Arthur Blair, el hombre detras del seudonimo, llego a ser el mito que hoy es.La primera biografia del escritor publicada en ruso ha venido a colmar las lagunas de las ediciones anteriores, especialmente profundas en Rusia, al haberse tratado de un autor proscrito y olvidado por la URSS. George Orwell: vida, obra, tiempo se diferencia del resto de biografias en que reune una serie de nuevos fondos documentales de archivo, entre ellos un epistolario inedito, para aportar una mirada diferente sobre un hombre que a la vez amo y odio el mundo que le rodeaba y el tiempo que le toco vivir.Evitando tanto la idealizacion como el prejuicio, Felshtinsky ha escrito el retrato mas completo hasta la fecha del periodista y ensayista que ha pasado a los anales de la literatura universal como el mas perspicaz critico del totalitarismo.