5 Top true crime books like The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia by Mark Galeotti

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The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia

By: Mark Galeotti

3.81

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia’s …

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1. Gulag

By: Anne Applebaum

4.01

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal … read more

Similar categories in Anne Applebaum's Gulag book and Mark Galeotti's The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia

  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • russian history

2. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933

By: Anne Applebaum

3.32

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulagand the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtai… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • russian history

3. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

By: Serhii Plokhy

3.87

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more

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4. Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America

By: Ioan Grillo

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Hardcover

In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps five hundred body parts in metal … read more

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5. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

By: Vladislav M. Zubok

4.26

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to … read more

Similar categories in Vladislav M. Zubok's Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union book and Mark Galeotti's The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia

  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
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6. Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West

By: Catherine Belton

4.18

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Belton's Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West book and Mark Galeotti's The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia

  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything

By: Oliver Bullough

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In his punchy follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough's Butler to the World unravels the dark secre… read more

Similar categories in Oliver Bullough's Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything book and Mark Galeotti's The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia

  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. The Story of Russia

By: Orlando Figes

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern R… read more

Similar categories in Orlando Figes's The Story of Russia book and Mark Galeotti's The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia

  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
  • audiobook
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9. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

By: Steve Coll

4.44

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more

Similar categories in Steve Coll's The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq book and Mark Galeotti's The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

By: Zeke Faux

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more

Similar categories in Zeke Faux's Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall book and Mark Galeotti's The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

By: Antony Beevor

3.90

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of … read more

Similar categories in Antony Beevor's Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 book and Mark Galeotti's The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia

  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
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12. The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process

By: Robert Spencer

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Every negotiated settlement between the State of Israel and its Palestinian adversaries has failed … read more

Similar categories in Robert Spencer's The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process book and Mark Galeotti's The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency

By: Andy Greenberg

4.50

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrenc… read more

Similar categories in Andy Greenberg's Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency book and Mark Galeotti's The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Powerbrokers

By: Benjamin R. Teitelbaum

3.91

Format: 1 pages, Audio CD

MP3 CD Format An explosive and unprecedented inside look at Steve Bannon's entourage of global powe… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin R. Teitelbaum's War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Powerbrokers book and Mark Galeotti's The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Overreach

By: Owen Matthews

4.37

Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition

An astonishing investigation into the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war – from the corridors of the … read more

Similar categories in Owen Matthews's Overreach book and Mark Galeotti's The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia

  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
  • audiobook
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16. The Psychology of Totalitarianism

By: Mattias Desmet

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The world is in the grips of mass formation—a dangerous, collective type of hypnosis—as we bear wit… read more

Similar categories in Mattias Desmet's The Psychology of Totalitarianism book and Mark Galeotti's The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The first thing totalitarian leaders do is make sure their voices are the only ones left."

-Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

"Totalitarianism and technocracy like to present themselves as the pinnacle of rationality and science."

-Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

"Dissident speech doesn't have to be primarily tactical or rhetorical in nature, but it should be authentic and honest."

-Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

"When society as a whole is in the grip of anxiety and the accompanying images of illness and death, those images in themselves become a causal factor."

-Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

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17. The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia

By: Mark Galeotti

3.81

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia’s … read more

Similar categories in Mark Galeotti's The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia book and Mark Galeotti's The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia

  • russia
  • history
  • true crime
  • travel
  • politics
  • academic
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. Putin: His Life and Times

By: Philip Short

4.32

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

Vladimir Putin is a pariah to the West.Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the Un… read more

Similar categories in Philip Short's Putin: His Life and Times book and Mark Galeotti's The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia

  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
  • audiobook
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19. Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation

By: Andrew Marantz

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From a rising star at The New Yorker, a deeply immersive chronicle of how the optimistic entreprene… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Älskade bror : en rapport från gängvåldets Sverige

By: Lisa Dos Santos

3.74

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Följ kampen mot den gängrelaterade brottsligheten inifrån. Med utgångspunkt i ett uppmärksammat mor… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Dos Santos's Älskade bror : en rapport från gängvåldets Sverige book and Mark Galeotti's The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Russia's Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy by Anders Aslund

21. Russia's Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy

By: Anders Aslund

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A penetrating look into the extreme plutocracy Vladimir Putin has created and its implications for … read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • russian history

13 Best audiobook books like The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia by Mark Galeotti

Transform Your Habits

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West

Catherine Belton

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything

Oliver Bullough

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Story of Russia

Orlando Figes

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

Steve Coll

4.44

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18 Best politics books like Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything by Oliver Bullough

Transform Your Habits

Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens

Nicholas Shaxson

3.77

Transform Your Habits

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

Transform Your Habits

When McKinsey Comes to Town

Walt Bogdanich

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

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