Review of "Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West" on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
An outstanding piece of investigation that explains a lot about the current state of things.
Belton uses just the right amount of repetition/re-introduction to keep track of names and organisations. This is helpful as the Kremlin's schemes and machinations can get complicated.
This made it easier to read than Dawisha's "Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?" (which focuses more on the business side of Putin's people).
Only one thing bugged me in the last chapter, where a protagonist "downloaded" a video to Youtube. You upload a video to Youtube. And that's pretty much the only thing I can criticise. So I strongly recommend this read and I'm deeply grateful to Catherine Belton for this corageous book.