Years before Vladimir Putin became the president of Russia, one of the most powerful leaders in the world, he was a mid-ranking officer in the KGB, the Soviet Union's notorious security and ...

Karen Dawisha, professor of political science at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, spent the last five years investigating how Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, came to control so much of that ...

A failed Soviet spy, consigned to processing files in a KGB archive, becomes disillusioned with the brutality of his own government and defects to the West in this arresting biography from journalist ...