David Satter
David Satter | |
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Born | David A. Satter August 1, 1947 Chicago, Illinois |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Chicago University of Oxford |
Occupation(s) | Journalist and historian |
David A. Satter (born August 1, 1947) is an American journalist and historian
Life and career
David Satter graduated from the
Satter published several books about Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. In an article in The Wall Street Journal Europe, April 2, 1997, he wrote: "When the Soviet Union fell… the moral impulse motivating the democratic movement had to become the basis of Russia’s political practices. The tragedy of the present situation is that Russian gangsters are cutting off this development before it has a chance to take root."[4]
A documentary film about the fall of the Soviet Union based on Satter's book Age of Delirium was completed in 2011.
In December 2013, the Russian government expelled Satter from the country for allegedly committing "multiple gross violations" of Russian migration law;[12] Satter said he followed the procedures the Russian Foreign Ministry set out for him[12] and said that the manner of his expulsion was a formula reserved for spies.[13][14] Luke Harding suggested that Satter's expulsion from the Russian Federation was part of a wider trend by the FSB that is, "increasingly rejecting visa applications from Western academics seeking to visit Russia if their publications are deemed hostile."[13]
Russian apartment bombings
In his book, Darkness at Dawn, Satter described
With Yeltsin and his family facing possible criminal prosecution… a plan was put into motion to put in place a successor who would guarantee that Yeltsin and his family would be safe from prosecution and the criminal division of property in the country would not be subject to reexamination. For 'Operation Successor' to succeed, however, it was necessary to have a massive provocation. In my view, this provocation was the bombing in September, 1999 of the apartment buildings in Moscow, Buinaksk and Volgodonsk. In the aftermath of these attacks, which claimed 300 lives, a new war was launched against Chechnya, Putin, the newly appointed prime minister who was put in charge of that war achieved overnight popularity. Yeltsin resigned early. Putin was elected president and his first act was to guarantee Yeltsin immunity from prosecution.[15]
A cable from the US embassy in Moscow on 24 March 2000 stated that one of the embassy's principal informants, a former Russian intelligence officer, said the real story about the
On 14 July 2016, David Satter filed a request to obtain official assessment of who was responsible for the bombings from the State Department, the CIA and the FBI under the
The latest book by Satter on this subject was The Less You Know, The Better You Sleep: Russia's Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin[19]
His books
- Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union. ISBN 0-300-08705-5
- Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State. ISBN 0-300-09892-8
- It Was a Long Time Ago and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past. ISBN 0-300-11145-2
- The Less You Know, The Better You Sleep: Russia's Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin. ISBN 0-300-21142-2
- Never Speak to Strangers and Other Writing from Russia and the Soviet Union. ISBN 978-3-838-21457-3
References
- ISSN 2078-1938. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
- ^ Satter, David (August 17, 2016). "The Unsolved Mystery Behind the Act of Terror That Brought Putin to Power". National Review. Retrieved June 4, 2017.
- ^ David Satter Biography Archived 2006-12-01 at the Wayback Machine, Hudson Institute.
- ^ Satter, David (April 2, 1997). "Organized Crime Is Smothering Russian Civil Society". The Wall Street Journal (Online archive). Archived from the original on 2022-07-02. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
When the Soviet Union fell, the deification of the state fell with it, opening up the possibility of a new future for Russia and the other successor republics. For this new departure to take place, however, Russia had to lose its underlying repressive psychology, which meant that the moral impulse motivating the democratic movement had to become the basis of Russia's political practices. The tragedy of the present situation is that Russian gangsters are cutting off this development before it has a chance to take root.
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- ^ "Notes on Current Books". The Virginia Quarterly Review (Online archive). Winter 1997. Archived from the original on 2005-05-08.
- ^ The National Post. Ontario. p. A10.
- ^ Macqueen, Angus (18 December 2004). "Nothing left but theft". The Guardian. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
- ^ Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, "Film Screening of "Age of Delirium'" (2013) online
- ^ Disbelief. The record in IMDB.
- ^ "Google Video". Archived from the original on 2007-11-14. Retrieved 2007-01-18.
- ^ a b Lally, Kathy (January 14, 2014). "U.S. journalist David Satter, a Putin critic, is barred from returning to Russia". Washington Post.
- ^ a b Harding, Luke (January 13, 2014). "Russia expels US journalist David Satter without explanation". The Guardian.
- ^ "American journalist David Satter kicked out of Russia". CNN. January 14, 2014.
- ^ Satter House Testimony Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, 2007.
- ^ "U.S. Senator Ben Cardin Releases Report Detailing Two Decades of Putin's Attacks on Democracy, Calling for Policy Changes to Counter Kremlin Threat Ahead of 2018, 2020 Elections | U.S. Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland". www.cardin.senate.gov. pp. 165–171. Archived from the original on 14 February 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
- ^ How America Helped Make Vladimir Putin Dictator for Life Archived 18 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine by David Satter, 29 August 2017
- ^ "The Mystery of Russia's 1999 Apartment Bombings Lingers — the CIA Could Clear It Up – National Review". National Review. 2 February 2017.
- ^ The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep: Russia’s Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin by David Satter, Reviewed by Giles Whittell, The Times
External links
- Biography at the Hudson Institute site
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- His articles
- How America Helped Make Vladimir Putin Dictator for Life, an article by David Satter