Putin's Rise to Power
Dan Snow's History Hit
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🗓️ 22 May 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Catherine Belton joins Dan on the podcast to discuss the remarkable story of Vladimir Putin's rise to power. After working from 2007-2013 as the Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times, Catherine's career has offered an exclusive insight into the workings of Putin's Kremlin. Her book 'Putin's People' is packed with interviews with the key inside players, uncovering fascinating details about how Putin subverted Russia’s economy and legal system and extended the Kremlin's reach into the United States and Europe. It's a story of billions of dollars being siphoned out of state enterprises, murky networks of operatives and the suppression of independent voices.
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| 0:38.0 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit. Here's a favorite episode from our archive. Enjoy. |
| 0:44.5 | Hi everyone. Welcome to Dan Snow's History. We've got a great podcast for you. We've got the brilliant Catherine Belton. |
| 0:49.2 | She's a writer. She's journalist. She is an expert total expert in Russia and Vladimir Putin. |
| 0:54.6 | She goes right back to the start of his career. When in 1985 he was a young KJB officer. |
| 1:00.1 | He was hanging out in Dresden. She identifies him that he was a senior liaison officer with the Stasi. |
| 1:06.2 | He was doing all sorts of hellish things. His career has gone from bad to worse. |
| 1:10.6 | Now he's a globally significant figure. That's great news. This was a brilliant podcast, |
| 1:14.6 | bit of recent history, but not just Putin. Look at what happened to Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. |
| 1:20.8 | What do the people around Putin and the man himself? What do they want? Are the gangsters motivated by |
| 1:25.1 | money? Is there a nationalist element to their plans? Their vision for Russia? It's not easy |
| 1:30.2 | listening to this, but it's important. Thank you very much to Brilliant Catherine Belton for |
| 1:35.0 | producing such a comprehensive first draft of history. It's remarkable. Enjoy. Catherine Belton. |
| 1:46.2 | Catherine, thank you very much for coming on the podcast. |
| 1:48.4 | Great. Thanks so much for having me on. I'm really excited to join. |
| 1:52.6 | Let's go back to Mikhail Gorbachev. There was a coup in August of 1991. It's the end of the Soviet |
| 1:59.4 | Union. It all falls apart. Where is Vladimir Putin and what is he up to and who's he hanging out with? |
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