Dr Yuri Felshtinsky taught at Boston University and was a Fellow of the Hoover Institute, University of Stanford. He wrote bestseller Blowing up Russia ('Crucially important' Prof. Robert Service, Oxford University) with Alexander Litvinenko (Netflix bio-series in 2023), Colonel Vladimir Popov was a KGB operative from 1972 to the KGB putsch in August 1991 - in which he refused to take part. He emigrated to Canada where he currently resides.

• List of Abbreviations 6What's in a Name? Cheka to FSB 8From Red Terror to Terrorist State 13Part One: The Cheka and the Soviet Union1 Formation of the Soviet Government 232 Felix Dzerzhinsky's Conspiracy 283 The First Attempt to Assassinate Vladimir Lenin 344 Lenin's Resurgence 455 Dzerzhinsky's Elimination of Lenin 506 Lenin's Premature Death-Joseph Stalin 627 Control over the Lubyanka 758 The Doctor's Plot and the Jewish Question 879 Stalin's Premature Death-Lavrenty Beria 9610 Yevgeny Pitovranov, the Phoenix Rises 10611 The KGB and Soviet Intellectuals 12212 Russian Nationalism, the New Hymn 14013 Pitovranov's Special Operation in Afghanistan 15214 Angola, the KGB's Foreign Cash Cow 16515 The Death of Andropov 17816 The Doomsday Scenario 185Part Two: The Cheka's Russian World1 State Committee on the State of Emergency (August, 1991) 2042 Yeltsin's Impeachment (September, 1993) 2133 Presidential Elections (March, 1996) 2284 The Lubyanka Seizes the Kremlin (April, 2000) 2535 The Russian-Orthodox Church of Spies 2806 The Russkiy Mir 2917 Russia's Fifth International 3018 Icebreaker Donald Trump 3109 War on US Territory 326Conclusion 357Notes 359Index 379

'[O]ne of the leading experts on Russian assassinations.' Bill Browder; 'A scholarly and scrupulous analysis as well as a dark crime story which portrays a bloodthirsty monster so slippery that it has so far defied description.'; Viktor Suvorov, ex-GRU colonel and historian; '[A] detailed, compelling history of the deep-seated thirst for carnage endemic in Russia's intelligence services. A magisterial work by two of its foremost experts.' Oleg Kalugin, ex-KGB major-general; 'Destined to become the standard work.' Yuri Shvets, ex-KGB resident in Washington DC

Dr Yuri Felshtinsky taught at Boston University and was a Fellow of the Hoover Institute, University of Stanford. He wrote bestseller Blowing up Russia ('Crucially important' Prof. Robert Service, Oxford University) with Alexander Litvinenko (Netflix bio-series in 2023), Colonel Vladimir Popov was a KGB operative from 1972 to the KGB putsch in August 1991 - in which he refused to take part. He emigrated to Canada where he currently resides.

• List of Abbreviations 6What's in a Name? Cheka to FSB 8From Red Terror to Terrorist State 13Part One: The Cheka and the Soviet Union1 Formation of the Soviet Government 232 Felix Dzerzhinsky's Conspiracy 283 The First Attempt to Assassinate Vladimir Lenin 344 Lenin's Resurgence 455 Dzerzhinsky's Elimination of Lenin 506 Lenin's Premature Death-Joseph Stalin 627 Control over the Lubyanka 758 The Doctor's Plot and the Jewish Question 879 Stalin's Premature Death-Lavrenty Beria 9610 Yevgeny Pitovranov, the Phoenix Rises 10611 The KGB and Soviet Intellectuals 12212 Russian Nationalism, the New Hymn 14013 Pitovranov's Special Operation in Afghanistan 15214 Angola, the KGB's Foreign Cash Cow 16515 The Death of Andropov 17816 The Doomsday Scenario 185Part Two: The Cheka's Russian World1 State Committee on the State of Emergency (August, 1991) 2042 Yeltsin's Impeachment (September, 1993) 2133 Presidential Elections (March, 1996) 2284 The Lubyanka Seizes the Kremlin (April, 2000) 2535 The Russian-Orthodox Church of Spies 2806 The Russkiy Mir 2917 Russia's Fifth International 3018 Icebreaker Donald Trump 3109 War on US Territory 326Conclusion 357Notes 359Index 379

'[O]ne of the leading experts on Russian assassinations.' Bill Browder; 'A scholarly and scrupulous analysis as well as a dark crime story which portrays a bloodthirsty monster so slippery that it has so far defied description.'; Viktor Suvorov, ex-GRU colonel and historian; '[A] detailed, compelling history of the deep-seated thirst for carnage endemic in Russia's intelligence services. A magisterial work by two of its foremost experts.' Oleg Kalugin, ex-KGB major-general; 'Destined to become the standard work.' Yuri Shvets, ex-KGB resident in Washington DC

Dr Yuri Felshtinsky taught at Boston University and was a Fellow of the Hoover Institute, University of Stanford. He wrote bestseller Blowing up Russia ('Crucially important' Prof. Robert Service, Oxford University) with Alexander Litvinenko (Netflix bio-series in 2023), Colonel Vladimir Popov was a KGB operative from 1972 to the KGB putsch in August 1991 - in which he refused to take part. He emigrated to Canada where he currently resides.

• List of Abbreviations 6What's in a Name? Cheka to FSB 8From Red Terror to Terrorist State 13Part One: The Cheka and the Soviet Union1 Formation of the Soviet Government 232 Felix Dzerzhinsky's Conspiracy 283 The First Attempt to Assassinate Vladimir Lenin 344 Lenin's Resurgence 455 Dzerzhinsky's Elimination of Lenin 506 Lenin's Premature Death-Joseph Stalin 627 Control over the Lubyanka 758 The Doctor's Plot and the Jewish Question 879 Stalin's Premature Death-Lavrenty Beria 9610 Yevgeny Pitovranov, the Phoenix Rises 10611 The KGB and Soviet Intellectuals 12212 Russian Nationalism, the New Hymn 14013 Pitovranov's Special Operation in Afghanistan 15214 Angola, the KGB's Foreign Cash Cow 16515 The Death of Andropov 17816 The Doomsday Scenario 185Part Two: The Cheka's Russian World1 State Committee on the State of Emergency (August, 1991) 2042 Yeltsin's Impeachment (September, 1993) 2133 Presidential Elections (March, 1996) 2284 The Lubyanka Seizes the Kremlin (April, 2000) 2535 The Russian-Orthodox Church of Spies 2806 The Russkiy Mir 2917 Russia's Fifth International 3018 Icebreaker Donald Trump 3109 War on US Territory 326Conclusion 357Notes 359Index 379

'[O]ne of the leading experts on Russian assassinations.' Bill Browder; 'A scholarly and scrupulous analysis as well as a dark crime story which portrays a bloodthirsty monster so slippery that it has so far defied description.'; Viktor Suvorov, ex-GRU colonel and historian; '[A] detailed, compelling history of the deep-seated thirst for carnage endemic in Russia's intelligence services. A magisterial work by two of its foremost experts.' Oleg Kalugin, ex-KGB major-general; 'Destined to become the standard work.' Yuri Shvets, ex-KGB resident in Washington DC