Yuri Felshtinsky

Yuri Felshtinsky is a Russian-American historian whose research focuses on Soviet and Russian political history. He has written extensively on Bolshevik politics, the collapse of the USSR, and Kremlin power structures, with books including Blowing up Russia and The Age of Assassins. His work draws on primary archival sources and has placed him among the more prominent Western-based analysts of Russian state behaviour.

Felshtinsky’s long-running analysis of Kremlin decision-making and Russian military doctrine provides historical grounding for understanding Moscow’s strategic calculus as Russia scales its drone programme and presses its campaign against Ukraine and NATO’s eastern flank.