Orders to Kill: The Putin Regime and Political Murder

Amy Knight

Feb 2018 · Biteback Publishing

About this ebook

Ever since Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia, his critics have turned up dead on a regular basis. According to Amy Knight, this is no coincidence. In Orders to Kill, the KGB scholar ties dozens of victims together to expose a campaign of political murder during Putin’s reign that even includes terrorist attacks such as the Boston Marathon bombing.

Russia is no stranger to political murder, from the tsars to the Soviets to the Putin regime, during which many journalists, activists and political opponents have been killed. Kremlin defenders like to say, “There is no proof,” however convenient these deaths have been for Putin, and, unsurprisingly, because he controls all investigations, Putin is never seen holding a smoking gun.

Orders to Kill is a story long hidden in plain sight with huge ramifications.

About the author

Amy Knight is the author of How the Cold War Began and Orders to Kill. She has written more than thirty scholarly articles and contributed numerous pieces on Russian politics and history to the New York Review of Books and The Times Literary Supplement. Her articles have also been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wilson Quarterly. She lives in New Jersey.