Ebook: The Treacherous Path
Author: Yakunin Vladimir I
- Tags: Homes, Politics and government, Biography, Yakunin Vladimir I. -- 1948- -- Homes and haunts -- Russia (Federation), Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-, Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 21st century, Russia (Federation)
- Year: 2018
- Publisher: Biteback Publishing Ltd
- City: Russia (Federation
- Language: English
- epub
In 1991, Vladimir Yakunin, a Soviet diplomat and KGB officer, returned from his posting in New York to a country that no longer existed.
The state that he had served for all his adult life had been dissolved, the values he knew abandoned. Millions of his compatriots suffered as their savings disappeared and their previously secure existences were threatened by an unholy combination of criminality, corruption and chaos. Others thrived amid the opportunities offered in the new polity, and a battle began over the direction the fledgling state should take.
While something resembling stability was won in the early 2000s, today Russia's future remains unresolved; its governing class divided.
The Treacherous Path is Yakunin's account of his own experiences on the front line of Russia's implosion and eventual resurgence, and of a career – as an intelligence officer, a government minister and for ten years the CEO of Russia's largest company – that has...