What if this conventional wisdom is nonsense? Russian exile Pavel Stroilov
argues just this in his forthcoming book, Behind the Desert Storm. “Not a
word of it is true,” he writes. “It was the Soviet Empire—not the
British Empire—that was responsible for the instability in the Middle
East.”

Stroilov, a historian now living in London, fled Russia in 2003 after
stealing 50,000 top-secret Kremlin documents from the Gorbachev Foundation
archives, where he was working as a researcher. He was given access to the
archive in 1999, but Gorbachev refused him permission to copy its most
significant documents. Having observed the network administrator entering
the password into the system, Stroilov reproduced the archive and sent it
to secure locations around the world.

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