Новинки Дэвида Саттера

David Satter arrived in the Soviet Union in June, 1976 as the correspondent of the Financial Times of London and entered a country that was a giant theater of the absurd. After 1982, he was banned from the Soviet Union but allowed back in 1990, and finally expelled in 2013 on the grounds that the secret police regarded his presence as “undesirable.” From 1976 to the present, he saw four different Russias, which differed from each other radically while remaining essentially the same. From 1976 to 1982, the Soviet Union was at the height of its world power and its people were in thrall to an absurd ideology. With the advent of Gorbachev’s perestroika, the Soviet population was liberated from the ideology and the state hurtled to its inevitable collapse. When independent Russia emerged from the wreckage, the failure to replace the missing ideology with genuine moral values led to Russia’s complete criminalization.

The articles in this unique collection are a chronicle of Russia from the day David Satter arrived in the Soviet Union until the present. Emigres from the states of the former Soviet Union often despair of their inability to convey the true character of their experiences to the West. Penetrating the veil of Russian mystification requires effort and the ability to understand that seeing is not always believing. The Russians have created an entire false world for our benefit. This collection reflects David Satter’s 40-year attempt to see them as they are.

Радянський Союз став першою в історії державою, в якій офіційна ідеологія пронизувала всі сфери й рівні життя, перетворюючи громадян на безликі та взаємозамінні гвинтики колосальної системи. Американський журналіст Девід Саттер, який у 1970‒1990-ті роки працював кореспондентом в СРСР, в своїй книзі показує життя радянських людей і трагічні наслідки цього соціального експерименту.

In December 2013, David Satter became the first American journalist to be expelled from Russia since the Cold War. The Moscow Times said it was not surprising he was expelled, “it was surprising it took so long.” Satter is known in Russia for having written that the apartment bombings in 1999, which were blamed on Chechens and brought Putin to power, were actually carried out by the Russian FSB security police.

In this book, Satter tells the story of the apartment bombings and how Boris Yeltsin presided over the criminalization of Russia, why Vladimir Putin was chosen as his sucessor, and how Putin has suppressed all opposition while retaining the appreance of a pluralist state. As the threat represented by Russia becomes increasingly clear, Satter’s description of where Russia is and how it got there will be of vital interest to anyone concerned about the dangers facing the world today.

Ця книга – це новітня історія Росії, історія сконцентрована і надзвичайно повчальна. Девід Саттер пропонує свої відповіді на ті питання, які турбують зараз українців. Чи росіяни хороші, а Путін поганий? Путін поганий, а російські ліберали хороші? Росія – потужна країна Сходу чи клептократична імперія, яка загниває? Саттер не теоретично розмірковує над цими питаннями, а пише про країну, яку глибоко знає та відчуває, з якою прожив власне журналістське життя.

Автор книги, американский журналист и политолог, несколько лет работал в России в качестве корреспондента Financial Times; он является сотрудником Гудзоновского института, а также преподает в Школе высших международных исследований Университета Джонса Хопкинса. В своей книге Д.Саттер показывает самый загадочный период в жизни Владимира Путина - его приход в Кремль и избрание президентом России. Автор касается таких острых тем, как внутренняя борьба в кремлевском руководстве, закулисная сторона чеченской войны, взрывы жилых домов в Москве и т. д.
Материалы Д.Саттера получены от информаторов из высших эшелонов российской власти, из личных интервью автора с видными российскими политиками, а также из зарубежных источников.

In this book David Satter, a former Moscow correspondent and longtime writer on Russia and the Soviet Union, presents a striking new interpretation of Russia's great historical tragedy, locating its source in Russia's failure fully to appreciate the value of the individual in comparison with the objectives of the state.

Satter explores the moral and spiritual crisis of Russian society. He shows how it is possible for a government to deny the inherent value of its citizens and for the population to agree, and why so many Russians actually mourn the passing of the Soviet regime that denied them fundamental rights. Through a wide-ranging consideration of attitudes toward the living and the dead, the past and the present, the state and the individual, Satter arrives at a distinctive and important new way of understanding the Russian experience.

"Век безумия" - книга о том, что предшествовало развалу огромной страны, СССР, о временах Брежнева, Андропова, Черненко и Горбачева. Эта книга человека, искренне симпатизирующего русским людям и честно пытающегося понять чуждый ему образ

«Век безумия» — книга о том, что предшествовало развалу огромной страны, СССР, о временах Брежнева, Андропова, Черненко и Горбачева. Эта книга человека, искренне симпатизирующего русским людям и честно пытающегося понять чуждый ему образ жизни. Начиная с 1970-х годов Дэвид Саттер объездил Советский Союз вдоль и поперек. В результате ему удалось создать своеобразный документ эпохи, изобилующий свидетельствами многих очевидцев — знаменитых и безвестных.

Дэвид Саттер - американский журналист и писатель, проработал в Москве в качестве корреспондента английской газеты "Файненшел таймc" с 1976 по 1982 год. Позже он был свидетелем драматических событий перестройки, распада СССР и образования нового

Anticipating a new dawn of freedom and democracy after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russians could hardly have foreseen the reality of their future a decade later: a country desperately impoverished and controlled at every level by criminals. This is the story of the 1990s reform period in Russia through the experiences of individual citizens. Recounting in detail the development of a new era of oppression, journalist David Satter conveys the staggering nature of the changes that have swept Russian life, society, and ways of thinking.

The first state in history to be based explicitly on atheism, the Soviet Union endowed itself with the attributes of God. In this book, David Satter shows through individual stories what it meant to construct an entire state on the basis of a false idea, how people were forced to act out this fictitious reality, and the tragic human cost of the Soviet attempt to remake reality by force.

David Satter arrived in the Soviet Union in June, 1976 as the correspondent of the Financial Times of London and entered a country that was a giant theater of the absurd. After 1982, he was banned from the Soviet Union but allowed back in 1990, and finally expelled in 2013 on the grounds that the secret police regarded his presence as “undesirable.” From 1976 to the present, he saw four different Russias, which differed from each other radically while remaining essentially the same. From 1976 to 1982, the Soviet Union was at the height of its world power and its people were in thrall to an absurd ideology. With the advent of Gorbachev’s perestroika, the Soviet population was liberated from the ideology and the state hurtled to its inevitable collapse. When independent Russia emerged from the wreckage, the failure to replace the missing ideology with genuine moral values led to Russia’s complete criminalization. &t;br/&t; The articles in this unique collection are a chronicle of Russia from the day David Satter arrived in the Soviet Union until the present. Emigres from the states of the former Soviet Union often despair of their inability to convey the true character of their experiences to the West. Penetrating the veil of Russian mystification requires effort and the ability to understand that seeing is not always believing. The Russians have created an entire false world for our benefit. This collection reflects David Satter’s 40-year attempt to see them as they are.