Yuri Felshtinsky

Yuri Felshtinsky (b. 1956, Moscow) is a Russian historian living in United States. He immigrated from the Soviet Union into the USA in 1978. He graduated from Brandeis University and got his PhD in history from Rutgers University. In 1993, he also defended his Doctor of Science thesis at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Felshtinsky authored several books on modern Russian and early Soviet history, including Blowing up Russia with Alexander Litvinenko and The Age of Assassins with Vladimir Pribylovsky .

He published a number of books on history of the Communist movement. In a book "Leaders the mobsters" he described Bolshevik party as a mafia-like organization where "almost no one died by a natural cause", based on hundreds of primary and secondary sources. This includes poisoning of Vladimir Lenin, Felix Dzerzhinsky, and Maksim Gorky by Genrikh Yagoda on the orders from Joseph Stalin, murders of Mikhail Frunze, Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, and Leon Trotsky, poisoning of Stalin by Lavrenty Beria, and other similar episodes

Felshtinsky also wrote a book Blowing up Russia, together with Alexander Litvinenko.. In the book, Litvinenko and Felshtinsky allege that the Russian apartment bombings in September 1999 attributed to Chechen separatists were in fact committed by the Federal Security Service (FSB), the Russian Federation's domestic security and intelligence agency. Litvinenko and Felshtinsky wrote that the bombings were a false flag operation intended to justify Second Chechen War and bring Vladimir Putin to power. In 2007 investigator Mikhail Trepashkin said that, according to his FSB sources, "everyone who was involved in publication of the book 'Blowing up Russia' will be killed", and that three FSB agents have made a trip to Boston to prepare the assassination of Felshtinsky

Publications by Yuri Felshtinsky

• The legal foundations of the immigration and emigration policy of the USSR, 1917 - 1927 (Glasgow, 1982) [1]
• The Bolsheviks and the Left SRS (Paris, 1985)
• Trotsky's Notebooks, 1933-1935. Writings on Lenin, Dialectics, and Evolutionism. (New York, 1986) [2]
• Towards a History of Our Isolation (London, 1988; Moscow, 1991)
• Conversations with Bukharin (Moscow, 1993)
• Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin and the Left Opposition in the USSR, 1918 - 1928 (Paris, 1990)
• The Failure of World Revolution (London, 1991; Moscow, 1992)
• Big Bosses (Moscow, 1999) [3]
• (with Alexander Litvinenko) Blowing up Russia(translated by Geoffrey Andrews), Gibson Square Books, London, 2007, ISBN 978-1903933954
• (with Vladimir Pribylovsky) The Age of Assassins. The Rise and Rise of Vladimir Putin, Gibson Square Books, London, 2008, ISBN 190-614207-6;
• (with Vladimir Pribylovsky)The Operation Successor. A political portrait of Vladimir Putin Text online (Russian)
• Leaders the mobsters Text online (Russian)

Interviews

• His interview at RFE/RL, November 3, 2007
• The Litvinenko affair, 04 February 2007, Andrew Marr interviewed Yuri Felshtinsky, on BBC News
• Interview with Yuri Felshtinsky, Demokratizatsiya, 2004

External links

• Felshtinsky's website