
The Man Without a Face
The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
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National Book Award-winner Masha Gessen's biography of a ruthless man's ascent to near-absolute power.
“In a country where journalists critical of the government have a way of meeting untimely deaths, Ms. Gessen has shown remarkable courage in researching and writing this unflinching indictment of the most powerful man in Russia.” (The Wall Street Journal)
The Man Without a Face is the chilling account of how a low-level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress and made his country once more a threat to its own people and to the world.
Handpicked as a successor by the "family" surrounding an ailing and increasingly unpopular Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin seemed like a perfect choice for the oligarchy to shape according to its own designs. Suddenly the boy who had stood in the shadows, dreaming of ruling the world, was a public figure, and his popularity soared. Russia and an infatuated West were determined to see the progressive leader of their dreams, even as he seized control of media, sent political rivals and critics into exile or to the grave, and smashed the country's fragile electoral system, concentrating power in the hands of his cronies.
As a journalist living in Moscow, Masha Gessen experienced this history firsthand, and for The Man Without a Face, she has drawn on information and sources no other writer has tapped. Her account of how a "faceless" man maneuvered his way into absolute - and absolutely corrupt - power is the definitive biography of Vladimir Putin.
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Lev Davidovich Trotsky burst onto the world stage in November 1917 as coleader of a Marxist Revolution seizing power in Russia. It made him one of the most recognized personalities of the 20th century, a global icon of radical change. Yet just months earlier, this same Lev Trotsky was a nobody, a refugee expelled from Europe, writing obscure pamphlets and speeches, barely noticed outside a small circle of fellow travelers. Where had he come from to topple Russia and change the world? Where else? New York.
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Great Story; Ludicrous Conclusion
- De Salvator Marinello en 12-03-20
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The Assassins' Gate
- America in Iraq
- De: George Packer
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 19 h y 43 m
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The Assassins' Gate, so dubbed by American soldiers, is the entrance to the American zone in the city of Baghdad. In 2003, the United States blazed into Iraq to depose dictator Saddam Hussein. But after three years and unknown thousands killed, that country faces an escalating civil war and an uncertain fate. How did it get to this point?
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Highly Recommended
- De Drapeau en 02-01-07
De: George Packer
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A Kingdom of Their Own
- The Family Karzai and the Afghan Disaster
- De: Joshua Partlow
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan
- Duración: 18 h y 53 m
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The key to understanding the calamitous Afghan war is the complex, ultimately failed relationship between the powerful, duplicitous Karzai family and the United States, brilliantly portrayed here by the former Kabul bureau chief for The Washington Post.
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Fabulous
- De Charles S. en 10-23-23
De: Joshua Partlow
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Moscow, December 25,1991
- The Last Day of the Soviet Union
- De: Conor O'Clery
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
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The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the USSR; Boris Yeltsin, a coarse and a hard drinking “bulldozer,” wished to destroy the union and create a capitalist Russia. The defeat of the August 1991 coup attempt, carried out by hardline communists, shook Gorbachev’s authority and was a triumph for Yeltsin.
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Gorbachev is GOD!
- De Rodney en 03-07-19
De: Conor O'Clery
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The Glory and the Dream
- A Narrative History of America, 1932 - 1972
- De: William Manchester
- Narrado por: Jeff Riggenbach
- Duración: 57 h y 23 m
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This great time capsule of a book captures the abundant popular history of the United States from 1932 to 1972. It encompasses politics, military history, economics, the lively arts, science, fashion, fads, social change, sexual mores, communications, graffiti...everything and anything indigenous that can be captured in print.
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Fabulous book, good narration, bad recording
- De Paula en 07-10-08
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Into the Hands of the Soldiers
- Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East
- De: David D. Kirkpatrick
- Narrado por: David D. Kirkpatrick
- Duración: 13 h y 31 m
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Egypt has long set the paradigm for Arab autocracy. It is the keeper of the peace with Israel and the cornerstone of the American-backed regional order. So when Egyptians rose up to demand democracy in 2011, their 30 months of freedom convulsed the whole region. Now a new strongman, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, is building a dictatorship so severe some call it totalitarian. The economy sputters, an insurgency simmers, Christians suffer, and the Israeli military has been forced to intervene. But some in Washington - including President Trump - applaud Sisi as a crucial ally.
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may get better, but presentation is off putting
- De Fruggs en 08-28-18
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The Devil's Diary
- Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich
- De: Robert K. Wittman, David Kinney
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan
- Duración: 15 h y 9 m
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A groundbreaking historical contribution, The Devil's Diary is a chilling window into the mind of Adolf Hitler's "chief social philosopher", Alfred Rosenberg, who formulated some of the guiding principles behind the Third Reich's genocidal crusade.
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Fresh perspective on terrible events.
- De Sparkly en 04-20-16
De: Robert K. Wittman, y otros
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Killing a King
- The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel
- De: Dan Ephron
- Narrado por: Assaf Cohen
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
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The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin remains the single most consequential event in Israel's recent history and one that fundamentally altered the trajectory for both Israel and the Palestinians. Killing a King relates the parallel stories of Rabin and his stalker, Yigal Amir, over the two years leading up to the assassination, as one of them planned political deals he hoped would lead to peace - and the other plotted murder.
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Tragic history well presented.
- De Mmday en 02-28-16
De: Dan Ephron
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The Invention of Russia
- From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
- De: Arkady Ostrovsky
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
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The end of Communism and breakup of the Soviet Union was a time of euphoria around the world, but Russia today is violently anti-American and dangerously nationalistic. So how did we go from the promise of those days to the autocratic police state of Putin's new Russia? The Invention of Russia reaches back to the darkest days of the Cold War to tell the story of the fight for the soul of a nation.
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Sad Story of Russia's Abandonment of Liberalism
- De Amazon Customer en 10-03-16
De: Arkady Ostrovsky
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The Terror Years
- From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
- De: Lawrence Wright
- Narrado por: John H. Mayer, Lawrence Wright
- Duración: 17 h y 24 m
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With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. This collection draws on several articles he wrote while researching that book as well as many that he's written since, following where and how al-Qaeda and its core cultlike beliefs have morphed and spread.
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Contains much old material from "Looming Tower"
- De peter en 09-21-16
De: Lawrence Wright
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The Exception to the Rulers
- Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media that Love Them
- De: Amy Goodman, David Goodman
- Narrado por: Amy Goodman
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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In The Exception to the Rulers, award-winning journalists Amy and David Goodman expose the lies, corruption, and crimes of the power elite, an elite bolstered by large media conglomerates. Her goal is “to go where the silence is, to give voice to the silenced majority.” This audiobook includes numerous archival audio excerpts, including statements from filmmaker Michael Moore, civil liberties victims describing their harrowing ordeals in the United States after 9/11, and more.
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The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep
- Russia's Road to Terror and Dictatorship Under Yeltsin and Putin
- De: David Satter
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 5 h y 23 m
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In this book Satter tells the story of the apartment bombings and how Boris Yeltsin presided over the criminalization of Russia, why Vladimir Putin was chosen as his sucessor, and how Putin has suppressed all opposition while retaining the appearance of a pluralist state. As the threat represented by Russia becomes increasingly clear, Satter's description of where Russia is and how it got there will be of vital interest to anyone concerned about the dangers facing the world today.
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David understands Russia better than Russians do
- De Grigory en 04-05-17
De: David Satter
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All the Kremlin's Men
- Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
- De: Mikhail Zygar
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 16 h y 13 m
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All the Kremlin's Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control. Based on an unprecedented series of interviews with Vladimir Putin's inner circle, this book presents a radically different view of power and politics in Russia. The image of Putin as a strongman is dissolved. In its place is a weary figurehead buffeted - if not controlled - by the men who at once advise and deceive him. The regional governors and bureaucratic leaders are immovable objects, far more powerful in their fiefdoms than the president himself.
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Enough with the Russian accents!
- De Emma Jane Top en 12-17-17
De: Mikhail Zygar
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The Future Is History
- How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
- De: Masha Gessen
- Narrado por: Masha Gessen
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Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. In The Future Is History, Gessen follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own - as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social beings.
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The author is an international treasure
- De ThreeGems en 10-16-17
De: Masha Gessen
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The New Tsar
- The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
- De: Steven Lee Myers
- Narrado por: René Ruiz
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The epic tale of the rise to power of Russia's current president—the only complete biography in English–that fully captures his emergence from shrouded obscurity and deprivation to become one of the most consequential and complicated leaders in modern history, by the former New York Times Moscow bureau chief.
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A retelling of facts without much added info
- De A. M. en 03-07-16
De: Steven Lee Myers
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Putin
- De: Philip Short
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
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Vladimir Putin is the world’s most dangerous man. Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm and has threatened to do so. He invades his neighbors, most recently Ukraine, meddles in western elections, and orders assassinations inside and outside Russia. His regime is autocratic and deeply corrupt. But that is only half the story. Unflinching, hard-hitting, and objective, Philip Short’s biography gives us the whole tale, up to the present day.
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for once a balanced book concerning a world leade
- De robert en 10-06-23
De: Philip Short
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Surviving Autocracy
- De: Masha Gessen
- Narrado por: Masha Gessen
- Duración: 5 h y 45 m
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In the run-up to the 2016 election, Masha Gessen stood out from other journalists for the ability to convey the ominous significance of Donald Trump's speech and behavior, unprecedented in a national candidate. Within 48 hours of Trump's victory, the essay "Autocracy: Rules for Survival" had gone viral, and Gessen's coverage of Trump's norm-smashing presidency became essential reading for a citizenry struggling to wrap their heads around the unimaginable.
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Good But . . .
- De A reviewer en 06-02-20
De: Masha Gessen
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Putin's People
- How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
- De: Catherine Belton
- Narrado por: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Duración: 18 h y 12 m
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In Putin’s People, the investigative journalist and former Moscow correspondent Catherine Belton reveals the untold story of how Vladimir Putin and the small group of KGB men surrounding him rose to power and looted their country. Delving deep into the workings of Putin’s Kremlin, Belton accesses key inside players to reveal how Putin replaced the freewheeling tycoons of the Yeltsin era with a new generation of loyal oligarchs, who in turn subverted Russia’s economy and legal system and extended the Kremlin's reach into the United States and Europe.
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very good
- De K en 07-15-20
De: Catherine Belton
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The Brothers
- The Road to an American Tragedy
- De: Masha Gessen
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
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On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 264 others. In the ensuing manhunt, Tamerlan Tsarnaev died, and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, was captured and ultimately charged on 30 federal counts. Yet long after the bombings and the terror they sowed, after all the testimony and debate, what we still haven't learned is why. Why did the American dream go so wrong for two immigrants?
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Worth the time
- De MadeYouLook en 02-08-19
De: Masha Gessen
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The Future Is History
- How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
- De: Masha Gessen
- Narrado por: Masha Gessen
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Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. In The Future Is History, Gessen follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own - as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social beings.
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The author is an international treasure
- De ThreeGems en 10-16-17
De: Masha Gessen
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The New Tsar
- The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
- De: Steven Lee Myers
- Narrado por: René Ruiz
- Duración: 22 h y 55 m
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The epic tale of the rise to power of Russia's current president—the only complete biography in English–that fully captures his emergence from shrouded obscurity and deprivation to become one of the most consequential and complicated leaders in modern history, by the former New York Times Moscow bureau chief.
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A retelling of facts without much added info
- De A. M. en 03-07-16
De: Steven Lee Myers
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Putin
- De: Philip Short
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
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Vladimir Putin is the world’s most dangerous man. Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm and has threatened to do so. He invades his neighbors, most recently Ukraine, meddles in western elections, and orders assassinations inside and outside Russia. His regime is autocratic and deeply corrupt. But that is only half the story. Unflinching, hard-hitting, and objective, Philip Short’s biography gives us the whole tale, up to the present day.
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for once a balanced book concerning a world leade
- De robert en 10-06-23
De: Philip Short
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Surviving Autocracy
- De: Masha Gessen
- Narrado por: Masha Gessen
- Duración: 5 h y 45 m
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In the run-up to the 2016 election, Masha Gessen stood out from other journalists for the ability to convey the ominous significance of Donald Trump's speech and behavior, unprecedented in a national candidate. Within 48 hours of Trump's victory, the essay "Autocracy: Rules for Survival" had gone viral, and Gessen's coverage of Trump's norm-smashing presidency became essential reading for a citizenry struggling to wrap their heads around the unimaginable.
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Good But . . .
- De A reviewer en 06-02-20
De: Masha Gessen
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Putin's People
- How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
- De: Catherine Belton
- Narrado por: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Duración: 18 h y 12 m
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In Putin’s People, the investigative journalist and former Moscow correspondent Catherine Belton reveals the untold story of how Vladimir Putin and the small group of KGB men surrounding him rose to power and looted their country. Delving deep into the workings of Putin’s Kremlin, Belton accesses key inside players to reveal how Putin replaced the freewheeling tycoons of the Yeltsin era with a new generation of loyal oligarchs, who in turn subverted Russia’s economy and legal system and extended the Kremlin's reach into the United States and Europe.
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very good
- De K en 07-15-20
De: Catherine Belton
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The Brothers
- The Road to an American Tragedy
- De: Masha Gessen
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
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On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 264 others. In the ensuing manhunt, Tamerlan Tsarnaev died, and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, was captured and ultimately charged on 30 federal counts. Yet long after the bombings and the terror they sowed, after all the testimony and debate, what we still haven't learned is why. Why did the American dream go so wrong for two immigrants?
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Worth the time
- De MadeYouLook en 02-08-19
De: Masha Gessen
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Never Remember
- Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia
- De: Masha Gessen
- Narrado por: Masha Gessen
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The Gulag was a monstrous network of labor camps that held and killed millions of prisoners from the 1930s to the 1950s. More than half a century after the end of Stalinist terror, the geography of the Gulag has been barely sketched and the number of its victims remains unknown. Has the Gulag been forgotten? Writer Masha Gessen and photographer Misha Friedman set out across Russia in search of the memory of the Gulag.
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a wonderful reminder never to forget
- De Privet en 05-25-19
De: Masha Gessen
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Railroaded
- The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
- De: Richard White
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 23 h y 5 m
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The transcontinental railroads of the late 19th century were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating panics in the US economy. Their dependence on public largess drew them into the corridors of power, initiating new forms of corruption. Their operations rearranged space and time, and remade the landscape of the West. As wheel and rail, car and coal, they opened new worlds of work and ways of life.
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Correcting the Myth of the Transcontinentals
- De Keith en 06-23-18
De: Richard White
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Mr. Putin
- Operative in the Kremlin
- De: Fiona Hill, Clifford G. Gaddy
- Narrado por: Ellen Archer
- Duración: 17 h y 38 m
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From the KGB to the Kremlin: a multidimensional portrait of the man at war with the West. Where do Vladimir Putin's ideas come from? How does he look at the outside world? What does he want, and how far is he willing to go? The great lesson of the outbreak of World War I in 1914 was the danger of misreading the statements, actions, and intentions of the adversary. Today, Vladimir Putin has become the greatest challenge to European security and the global world order in decades.
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Not a good narration.
- De IBH en 07-22-20
De: Fiona Hill, y otros
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Putin's World
- Russia Against the West and with the Rest
- De: Angela Stent
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 15 h y 32 m
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Putin's World examines the country's turbulent past, how it has influenced Putin, the Russians' understanding of their position on the global stage and their future ambitions—and their conviction that the West has tried to deny them a seat at the table of great powers since the USSR collapsed.
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More like The West against the world
- De Felis N en 01-18-20
De: Angela Stent
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The Battle for Spain
- The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
- De: Antony Beevor
- Narrado por: Sean Barrett
- Duración: 18 h y 48 m
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Antony Beevor has written a completely updated and revised account of one of the most bitter and hard-fought wars of the 20th century. With new material gleaned from Russian archives and numerous other sources, this brisk and accessible audiobook (Spain's number-one best seller for 12 weeks) provides a balanced and penetrating perspective, explaining the tensions that led to this terrible overture to World War II and affording new insights into the war - its causes, course, and consequences.
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Not an Accurate History Book
- De Jose en 10-16-19
De: Antony Beevor
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Words Will Break Cement
- The Passion of Pussy Riot
- De: Masha Gessen
- Narrado por: Carrington MacDuffie
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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The heroic story of Pussy Riot, who resurrected the power of truth in a society built on lies. On February 21, 2012, five young women entered the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. In neon-colored dresses, tights, and balaclavas, they performed a “punk prayer” beseeching the “Mother of God” to “get rid of Putin.” They were quickly shut down by security, and in the weeks and months that followed, three of the women were arrested and tried, and two were sentenced to a remote prison colony. But the incident captured international headlines, and footage of it went viral.
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Therapy in these authoritarian times
- De Emeri Burks en 08-30-22
De: Masha Gessen
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Punishing Putin
- Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia
- De: Stephanie Baker
- Narrado por: Jennifer Jill Araya
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
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From seizing superyachts to manipulating the global price of oil to trying to block the sale of military technology to Russia, we learn how the White House coordinated with top officials in London and Brussels to freeze a staggering $300 billion in foreign currency reserves accumulated in the West by Russia’s central bank. Mobilizing an army of white collar-crime investigators and experts on international law, Baker explores how the West has cracked down on illicit Russian money by targeting oligarchs, one superyacht at a time, and their enablers around the world.
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Interesting in-depth storytelling
- De EBM en 10-01-24
De: Stephanie Baker
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Putin's Wars
- From Chechnya to Ukraine
- De: Mark Galeotti
- Narrado por: David Sibley
- Duración: 15 h y 12 m
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Putin's Wars is a timely overview of the conflicts in which Russia has been involved since Vladimir Putin became prime minister and then president of Russia, from the First Chechen War to the two military incursions into Georgia, the annexation of Crimea and the eventual invasion of Ukraine itself. But it also looks more broadly at Putin's recreation of Russian military power and its expansion to include a range of new capabilities, from mercenaries to operatives in a relentless information war against Western powers.
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Botched Attempt on Russian Stress
- De Alexey B. en 12-20-22
De: Mark Galeotti
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Putin's Playbook
- Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America
- De: Rebekah Koffler
- Narrado por: Joyce Sternton
- Duración: 13 h y 9 m
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Politicians and pundits on both sides of the aisle have accused Russia of interfering with our elections and our intelligence agencies. But the war Russia is waging against America is very different from anything you have heard in the press, as Russian-born US intelligence expert Rebekah Koffler reveals. In Putin’s Playbook, Koffler details how Vladimir Putin is orchestrating a wide-ranging, multifaceted campaign to retake his country’s role as a superpower and to defeat America in the process.
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Pure Right Wing Propaganda. Right out of Putins Playbook
- De Michael Christensen en 02-04-22
De: Rebekah Koffler
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Deputy Mayor Putin
- De: Maeve McQuillan
- Narrado por: Fiona Shaw, Gwilym Lee
- Duración: 3 h y 57 m
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How did a once faceless bureaucrat, a man whose own wife said he was born under the sign of the vampire, become the idealized face of Russian manhood and its authoritarian leader? Deputy Mayor Putin examines the man behind the myth. We will explore how Putin’s formative years shaped and drove him and how the supporting cast of characters he gathered along the way helped him get to the Kremlin’s inner sanctum.
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Interesting
- De Lexi en 03-02-24
De: Maeve McQuillan
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Freezing Order
- A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, State-Sponsored Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
- De: Bill Browder
- Narrado por: Adam Grupper
- Duración: 10 h y 29 m
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When Browder’s young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail in 2009, Browder cast aside his business career and made it his life’s mission to pursue justice for Sergei. One of the first steps of that mission was to uncover who had killed Sergei and profited from the $230 million corruption scheme that he had exposed. As Browder and his team tracked the money that flowed out of Russia—through the Baltics and Cyprus and on to Western Europe and the Americas—they discovered that Vladimir Putin himself was one of the beneficiaries of the crime.
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Red Notice Part II —- The Empire Struck Out
- De R. Alembik en 04-16-22
De: Bill Browder
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Red Famine
- Stalin's War on Ukraine
- De: Anne Applebaum
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 17 h y 46 m
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In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization - in effect a second Russian Revolution - which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But instead of sending relief, the Soviet state made use of the catastrophe to rid itself of a political problem.
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Horrifying
- De Mendy en 01-21-18
De: Anne Applebaum
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- Nancy LaPlaca
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Masha Gessen has the key to understanding Putin
This was an outstanding book, and it was wonderful to hear Masha’s Narration. The storytelling was fantastic, and the insights and sidebars fascinating. I feel like I just learned about what made Russia tick from Yeltsin to today. Thank you Masha for so courageously covering Putin, the thug.
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- 01-29-20
A remarkable story about the rise of a dictator.
Gessen writes in a somewhat dry and matter of fact style that seem to be very Russian. The subject matter is also very Russian of course. It is a fascinating story with an incredible amount of detail exposing the rise of a not too sofisticated street thug to become the head of the Russian federation. He later develops into a worldwide egomaniac. The connection to the present authoritarian US President makes it even more contemporary and interesting for any American who wants to understand the relationship between US and Russia.
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- Allen M. Sokal
- 04-24-22
Excellent history and analysis and Putin
I already knew, as does everyone in the free world now, that Putin is a monster. This excellent book, written and narrated by a courageous Russian reporter who had to flee the country, is nevertheless an eye-opener. It should be required reading by everyone, especially, to the extent possible, by Russians. Unfortunately it will be impossible for most Russians for obvious reasons. The author provides a detailed account and analysis of Putin’s life, thinking, and character that is incredibly insightful and frightening.
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- tomasito
- 06-23-19
Clear and intelligent political reporting
Gessen is an excellent writer and witness of Russia's return to the totalitarian failed state of Lenin and Stalin. In a precise, direct narrative she chronicles how KGB operative Putin, with sullen cunning, stumbled into his dictatorship thereby completely closing any hope of individual political freedom opened by the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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- Oluwatosin falade
- 01-04-22
Glimpse into the rise of Vladimir Putin
Eye opener for anyone interested in Putin rise from FSB stooge to perhaps the most dangerous man against Democracy
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- Anne S. Johansen
- 03-25-22
This a must read book
I wish western leaders had read this book when it was written; perhaps we would have been better prepared for the war in Ukraine and what will sure come. This book is simply incredible. Anyone who wishes to understand Putin and his actions should read it.
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- nikki
- 11-10-24
A masterpiece
Gessen is a genius. This Incredibly complex and layered story is told in an absorbing way, a page turner that also captures fundamental and prescient truths about our world today
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- Michael D. Nickerson
- 07-13-21
Great read!
Most informative as it reveals a world we are not familiar with in western civilization. It is a continuation of the bizarre study of Russian history.
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- Tom Smith
- 04-13-22
Great listen
I saw Masha on a Putin documentary several years ago and decided to try her book. I like the way she narrated and content is fascinating.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-14-22
Everyone should read this book, today
Written over a decade ago but still explains everything about Putin. Gessen’s theory is spot-on, unfortunately. I loved their narration — highlights the black humor in the book, and Gessen’s interest in the charades of the Russian executive branch and judicial system. It’s an incredible feat of research and writing that this has such a clear and memorable narrative, even when listened to.
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