
Once upon a Time in Russia
The Rise of the Oligarchs and the Greatest Wealth in History
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Ben Mezrich
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The best-selling author of Bringing Down the House (63 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list and the basis for the hit movie 21) and The Accidental Billionaires (the basis for the Academy Award-winning film The Social Network) delivers an epic drama of wealth, rivalry, and betrayal among megawealthy Russian oligarchs - and its international repercussions.
Once Upon a Time in Russia is the untold true story of the larger-than-life billionaire oligarchs who surfed the waves of privatization to reap riches after the fall of the Soviet regime: "Godfather of the Kremlin" Boris Berezovsky, a former mathematician whose first entrepreneurial venture was running an automobile reselling business, and Roman Abramovich, his dashing young protégé, who built a multibillion-dollar empire of oil and aluminum. Locked in a complex, uniquely Russian partnership, Berezovsky and Abramovich battled their way through the "Wild East" of Russia, with Berezovsky acting as the younger man's krysha - his roof, his protector.
Written with the heart-stopping pacing of a thriller - but even more compelling because it is true - this story of amassing obscene wealth and power depicts a rarefied world seldom seen up close. Under Berezovsky's krysha, Abramovich built one of Russia's largest oil companies from the ground up and in exchange made cash deliveries - including $491 million in just one year. But their relationship frayed when Berezovsky attacked President Vladimir Putin in the media - and had to flee to the UK. Abramovich continued to prosper. Dead bodies trailed Berezovsky's footsteps, and threats followed him to London, where an associate of his died painfully and famously of Polonium poisoning. Then Berezovsky himself was later found dead, declared a suicide.
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- De Munster Monster en 08-01-19
De: Ben Mezrich
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- Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
- De: Ben Mezrich
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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In the midst of the Go-Go '90s, the culture of greed infused the MIT campus. A small blackjack club sprang up, dedicated to counting cards and beating the house at major casinos around the country. The Club grew slowly at first, but by the late 1990s, the right people had come up with the right system to take some of the world's most sophisticated casinos for all they were worth.
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Killed by Narrator
- De Harry JD en 03-12-08
De: Ben Mezrich
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Rigged
- De: Ben Mezrich
- Narrado por: Ben Mezrich
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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After conquering the hallowed halls of Harvard Business School, he enters the testosterone-laced warrens of the Merc Exchange, the asylumlike oil exchange located in lower Manhattan. A place where billions of dollars trade hands every week, the Merc is like a casino on crack, where former garbagemen become millionaires overnight and where fistfights break out on the trading floor.
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Another interesting story...
- De Carey Patrick Ryan en 11-27-07
De: Ben Mezrich
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Sex on the Moon
- The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History
- De: Ben Mezrich
- Narrado por: Casey Affleck
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA program had an idea - a romantic, albeit crazy, idea. He wanted to give his girlfriend the moon. Literally. Thad convinced his girlfriend and another female accomplice, both NASA interns, to break into an impregnable laboratory at NASA - past security checkpoints, an electronically locked door with cipher security codes, and camera-lined hallways - and help him steal the most precious objects in the world: the moon rocks. But what does one do with an item so valuable that it’s illegal even to own?
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Good book, horrible narration
- De M. Jordan en 07-27-11
De: Ben Mezrich
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The Accidental Billionaires
- The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal
- De: Ben Mezrich
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
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The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook. Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends - outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with women. The Accidental Billionaires is a compulsively listenable story of innocence lost - and of the unusual creation of a company that has revolutionized the way people relate to one another.
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Ears still bleeding
- De Maria en 01-28-10
De: Ben Mezrich
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Goblins
- The X-Files, Book 1
- De: Charles Grant
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
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Meet Mulder and Scully, FBI - the agency maverick and the female agent assigned to keep him in line. Their job is to investigate the eeriest unsolved mysteries in modern America, from pyro-psychics to death row demonics, from rampaging Sasquatches to alien invasions. These are the cases the Bureau wants handled quietly but quickly, before the public finds out what's really out there...and panics - the cases filed under "X".
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Not a bad start
- De Russell B. en 04-09-15
De: Charles Grant
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Busting Vegas
- The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees
- De: Ben Mezrich
- Narrado por: Ben Mezrich
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
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Semyon Dukach was known as the Darling of Las Vegas. A legend at age 21, this cocky hotshot was the biggest high roller to appear in Sin City in decades, a mathematical genius with a system the casinos had never seen before and couldn't stop, a system that has never been revealed until now; that has nothing to do with card counting, wasn't illegal, and was more powerful than anything that had been tried before.
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A Flat Read
- De Ginger Saariaho en 10-17-05
De: Ben Mezrich
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The Coming Dark
- De: D.J. Molles
- Narrado por: Scott Aiello
- Duración: 15 h y 43 m
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All Liam Avione ever wanted was to be a Deathbringer. Almost twenty years old now, he’s approaching the last six months of the decade-long training program, hopeful for his future as a protector of the Universe. One, slight problem: he’s got a genetic defect that he’s been keeping a secret. But as the training intensifies, so do his symptoms. Which are really hard to hide when they cause him to puke, pass out, and have a seizure in front of the training cadre.
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Started out with great premise, then (literally) died a thousand deaths
- De Kitsune en 04-29-25
De: D.J. Molles
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Morsels
- A Novel
- De: Abe Moss
- Narrado por: Candace Fitzgerald
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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Connie can't deny she's nervous about meeting her boyfriend's family. Spending the weekend at their ritzy woodland summer home, Evan's already given her fair warning that his parents are cold, snobbish, and especially unpleasant toward those outside their usual social circles. So when Evan's mother warmly greets them with open arms, Connie is as confused as he is. They're so friendly, in fact, Evan himself can hardly believe they're real. Then, while helping Evan's mother with dinner, Connie overhears strange noises coming from the basement—what almost sounds like voices calling out for help.
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Quick passed and loved it!
- De Rebecca Trost en 01-03-25
De: Abe Moss
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Pillars of Creation
- How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos
- De: Richard Panek
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 5 h y 19 m
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The James Webb Space Telescope is transforming the universe right before our eyes—and here, for the first time, is the inside account of how the mission originated, how it performs its miracles of science, and what its revolutionary images are revealing. Pillars of Creation tells the story of one of the greatest scientific achievements in the history of civilization, a $10 billion instrument with a staggeringly ambitious goal: unlocking the secrets of the cosmos.
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The sheer scope of unknowns probably dwarfs what we already grasp.
- De EZ Flyer en 01-02-25
De: Richard Panek
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After Midnight
- De: Irina Shapiro
- Narrado por: Jess Nahikian
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
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As the hurricane batters the house and the waters rise, Callum is found hanging from an ancient oak, murdered in the same way as the notorious villain in his most popular book. Cut off from the outside world, the guests soon realize that the murderer might strike again, and everyone at the plantation could either be the next victim or the killer.
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money back
- De halodust en 11-11-24
De: Irina Shapiro
Great novel. Amazing story
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GREAT READ; GOING TO GI BACK AND CATCH MESERICH
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Window into Post-Soviet Russia
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Great Listen
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A very interesting story
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Good but not best
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A modern day Shakespearean tale. Minus the love.
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Really enjoy your this author
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What did you like best about Once upon a Time in Russia? What did you like least?
It reads fast, but author likes to invent character's thoughts-- things he could not possibly know. Example, a whole chapter is based on a vivid description of a submarine captain in his final moments as his ship explodes and sinks. He invents the scene out of whole cloth.What could Ben Mezrich have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Tell the story as it was, not as he imagines it to be. It reads more like fiction than a history book.Do you think Once upon a Time in Russia needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
The events in the book are important, but this author seems not interested in reporting on them dispassionately.Impossible to know coverage
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Don’t judge it by it’s cover — a well-researched and interesting book
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