Oliver Stone - The Putin Interviews

on Muslims, 99

on Kyoto Protocol, 100

on being Anti-American, 100

on work management and national security, 103

on economy, 107

on economics, 126

on Syria, 130

on Russian relations with Turkey, 133

on Saudi Arabia, 142

on Security of Russia, 154

on Ukraine, 158

on Russian surveillance, 169

on Chechnya, 172

on Putin’s first Presidency, 178

on Georgia, Ukraine, and Crimea, 184

on the 2016 Election, 209

on cyber warfare, 219

on international relations, 229

on Syria and defense, 233

on sovereignty, 244

Reagan, Ronald, 30, 33, 79, 82, 105, 106, 107

Right Sector, 74

Ritneva River, 6

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 151

Rockefeller, John D., 199

Romania, 44, 115, 194, 232

Rose, Charlie, 128, 190

Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel, 45

Rousseff, Dilma, 127

Russian Federation, 12, 52, 76, 97, 109, 112, 172, 180, 185, 204, 240-241

Russian War, 8

Saakashvili, Mikheil, 51, 52, 73, 157, 184, 185, 187, 188

Sanders, Bernie, 123

Sebastopol, 193

Second Chechen War, 15, 17, 37

Second Punic War, 213

Security Council of Russia, 103

September 11th attacks32

Sharon, Ariel, 152

Shevardnadze, Eduard, 188

Siege of Leningrad, 5, 6

Silk Road, 92, 133

Simonyan, Margarita, 91

Snowden, Edward,50-54, 56-59, 61, 62, 91, 188, 220-222, 227

Sobchak, Anatoly, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17

Sochi, 72, 77, 133, 161, 162, 163, 178, 235

Somalia, 234

Soros, George, 71

South Ossetia, 52

Sovereignty, 45, 46, 60, 83, 119, 120, 121, 161, 221, 237, 244-247

Soviet Union, 1-3, 7, 9, 12-13, 17, 25-26, 30, 33-34, 40-41, 44-47, 81, 94, 115-116, 118, 120, 142, 156, 170, 172, 175, 183-184, 192-193, 199, 203, 223

Special Services, 56, 103, 104, 169, 170, 171, 179, 227, 228

St. Andrew Hall, 127

St. Petersburg, 6, 7, 11, 12, 16, 18, 28, 86, 199, 237

Stalin, Joseph, 7, 14, 25, 26, 46, 47, 96, 119, 170, 172, 203

Star Wars (Strategic Defense Initiative), 79

Stone, Sharon, 179, 182

Stuxnet, 220, 222, 224

Sunni tribes, 140, 218, 233

Supreme Court of the United States, 96

Suvorov, Alexander Vasilyevich, 231

Syria, 2, 32, 36, 46, 50, 114, 130-132, 134-136, 138-142, 145, 146, 158, 160, 161, 194, 216-218, 228, 233, 234, 235, 237, 238, 239

Tajikistan, 33

Tatars, 69, 196

Tbilisi, 16, 17

The Arctic, 98

The Pentagon, 114, 115, 117, 154, 220, 238

Tiger economy, 206

Timoshenko, Stephen, 189

Tolstoy, Leo, 113

TOPOL (ballistic missile), 78

Trans-Siberian Railroad, 92

Truman, Harry S., 46, 47, 198

Trump, Donald J., 3, 123, 209, 210-218, 225

Tsarism, 199

Tsipras, Alexis, 91

Turkey, 81, 133-138, 141, 147, 233-237

Ukraine, 2, 56, 60, 62-68, 71-74, 76, 81, 82, 90, 112, 115, 120-121, 158-159, 171-172, 181, 190-196, 217, 219, 243

UN Security Council, 31

United Nations Charter, 69, 139, 150

USS Donald Cook , 239-241

Verkhovna Rada, 67

Vietnam War, 30

Wall Street, 111, 118, 148, 179, 180, 182-183

Wallace, Mike, 23

Warsaw Treaty, 156

Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), 39, 113, 122

Western bloc, 120, 121, 156

WikiLeaks, 214

Wilson, Woodrow, 46

World Trade Organization (WTO), 64

World War II (Second World War), 6-8, 25, 47, 81, 118-120, 172, 213

Yanukovych, Viktor, 63, 65, 72, 73, 74, 189, 190, 191, 239, 240

Yatsenyuk, Arseniy, 159, 192

Yeltsin, Boris, 1, 12-16, 28-29, 33, 56, 164

Yugoslavia, 179

Yushchenko, Viktor, 189, 190

Snowden: Official Motion Picture Edition

By Oliver Stone and David Talbot

The Untold History of the United States

By Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick

On History: Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone in Conversation

By Oliver Stone and Tariq Ali

Scarface: The Movie Scriptbook

By Oliver Stone

A Child’s Night Dream: A Novel

By Oliver Stone

Copyright © 2017 by Oliver Stone

Foreword copyright © 2017 by Robert Scheer

All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without the express written consent of the publisher, except in the case of brief excerpts in critical reviews or articles. All inquiries should be addressed to Hot Books, 307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018.

Hot Books books may be purchased in bulk at special discounts for sales promotion, corporate gifts, fund-raising, or educational purposes. Special editions can also be created to specifications. For details, contact the Special Sales Department, Hot Books, 307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018 or info@skyhorsepublishing.com.

Hot Books is an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.®, a Delaware corporation.

www.skyhorsepublishing.com

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available on file.

ISBN: 978-1-51073-342-8

eISBN: 978-1-51073-343-5

Cover design by Brian Peterson

Printed in Canada

Background Information:

The Siege of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) lasted for 872 days from Sept. 8, 1941 to Jan. 27, 1944. During the Siege, the Nazis were able to encircle Leningrad and cut off nearly all of the supplies, including food, to the city. In 1942 alone, 650,000 city residents died as a result. https://www.britannica.com/event/Siege-of-Leningrad

Background Information:

The actual number of casualties relative to the number of men mobilised during World War I is appalling. Total number for the Allies was 52%. The total for the Central Powers was 67%. See, “First World War Causalties,” Chris Trueman The History Learning Site (April 17, 2015). Retrieved at: http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-one/world-war-one-and-casualties/first-world-war-casualties/

The numbers on Trueman’s site are supported by those found on the International Encylopedia of the First World War . See, “War Losses,” Antoine Prost (October 8, 2014). Retrieved at: http://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/war_losses

Background Information:

Perestroika , was, in the words of the Library of Congress, “Mikhail Gorbachev’s program [starting 1986] of economic, political, and social restructuring, [which] became the unintended catalyst for dismantling” the Soviet state. “Revelations from the Soviet Archive,” Library of Congress, retrieved at: https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/pere.html

Background Information:

The August coup of 1991 was a short-lived plot hatched by what the West referred to as “hard-line” Communists who made a last-ditch effort to save the Soviet Union in the face of the chaotic situation brought about by Gorbachev’s Perestroika . The coup was short, lasting only a few days, and most famously involved the kidnapping of Gorbachev and the attempt to reinstate Communist control over the Soviet Union. The plot backfired miserably, making a hero out of Boris Yeltsin who openly led protests against the coup, hastening the collapse of the USSR. See, “The KGB’s Bathhouse Plot,” VICTOR SEBESTYEN, the New York Times (Aug. 20, 2011). Retrieved at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/opinion/sunday/the-soviet-coup-that-failed.html