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 …
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1. The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569 - 1999
By: Timothy Snyder
4.30
Format: 367 pages, Paperback
Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of four rival modern nationalist ideologies from common medieva… read more
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2. Letting Go: The Pathway To Surrender
By: David R. Hawkins
4.09
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The present work describes a simple and effective means by which to let go of the obstacles to Enli… read more
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"The crucial point is: by changing ourselves, we change the world. As we become more loving on the inside, healing occurs on the outside. Much like the rising of the sea level lifts all ships, so the …"-David R. Hawkins, Letting Go: The Pathway To Surrender
3. Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
By: Norman Davies
4.31
Format: 110 pages, Hardcover
'The past is a foreign country' has become a truism, yet we often forget that the past is different… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
4. The Old Man
By: Thomas Perry
3.68
Format: 346 pages,
Edgar Award-winning author Thomas Perry writes thrillers that move "almost faster than a speeding b… read more
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5. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
By: Christopher Clark
3.79
Format: None pages,
On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more
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6. The Power and the Glory
By: John Updike , Graham Greene
3.13
Format: 192 pages,
How does goodspoil, and how can badbe redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, G… read more
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7. 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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8. The Captive Mind
By: Czesław Miłosz
3.64
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The Captive Mind begins with a discussion of the novel Insatiability by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz… read more
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9. The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
By: Steven Lee Myers
4.67
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
"A riveting, immensely detailed biography of Putin that explains in full-bodied, almost Shakespeari… read more
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10. Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
By: Jake Adelstein
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Poli… read more
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11. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
By: John J. Mearsheimer
3.71
Format: 364 pages,
The update of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the… read more
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12. History of the Peloponnesian War
By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner
3.94
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more
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"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
13. The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
By: Daron Acemoğlu
4.23
Format: 560 pages, Kindle Edition
'A must-read. Acemoglu and Robinson are intellectual heavyweights of the first rank . . . erudite a… read more
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- economics
- history
- nonfiction
"The only way of achieving durable liberty is to . . . forge the balance necessary for building a Shackled Leviathan. True liberty can flourish neither without a state nor under the yoke of a Despotic…"-Daron Acemoğlu, The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
14. 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
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- history
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- russian history
15. 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
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- russian history
16. 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
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- history
- nonfiction
17. Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties
By: David de Jong
4.21
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors… read more
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- history
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18. Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine
By: Mark Galeotti
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A timely and accessible history of how Putin and the conflicts he has chosen to involve Russia in h… read more
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19. Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq
By: Melvyn P. Leffler
3.74
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A vivid portrayal of what drove George W. Bush to invade Iraq in 2003--an outcome that was in no wa… read more
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20. Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
By: Tom Burgis
3.80
Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition
A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year • An Economist Book of the Year “A must-read for anyo… read more
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- economics
- history
- nonfiction
"When the past threatens to ambush you in the present, change the past."-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
"It was to Blair that Nazarbayev turned for counsel at this delicate moment. The information blackout on Zhanaozen had been insufficient to prevent the basic details leaking out. It was as though some…"-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
"Nazarbayev found that he and his regime had a certain chemistry with figures from Blair’s strand of Western politics: the Third Way. It was a system that purported to wed the humanity of the left to …"-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
"Nazarbayev had learned that Westerners could be just as adept as he was in turning money into power and power back into money. Some, like Dick Evans and Jonathan Aitken, went about it from positions …"-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
21. After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made
By: Ben Rhodes
4.21
Format: 339 pages, Kindle Edition
Why is democracy so threatened in America and around the world? And what can we do about it? A form… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
22. Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia
By: Timothy Frye
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Looking beyond Putin to understand how today's Russia actually works Media and public discus… read more
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23. 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
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- russian history
24. 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
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25. Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
By: Sergei Guriev
3.98
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
How a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracy Hitler… read more
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- politics
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- economics
"As countries became postindustrial, educated, and internationally linked, their rulers had to adapt—or, at least, pretend to. Amid the third wave of democracy, liberal norms spread worldwide. The for…"-Sergei Guriev, Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
"These four changes—in the nature of work, education, social values, and communication technology—make it harder for dictators to dominate citizens in the old way. Harsh laws and bureaucratic regulati…"-Sergei Guriev, Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
"These four changes—in the nature of work, education, social values, and communication technology—make it harder for dictators to dominate citizens in the old way. Harsh laws and bureaucratic regulati…"-Sergei Guriev, Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
26. The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past
By: Shaun Walker
4.19
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker provides a deeply reported, bottom-up explanation of Russia's re… read more
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- russian history
27. The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe
By: Thane Gustafson
4.14
Format: 520 pages, Hardcover
A noted expert on Russian energy argues that despite Europe’s geopolitical rivalries, natural gas a… read more
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- history
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- economics
28. Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the new fight for the future of Russia
By: Mark Galeotti
4.04
Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Absolutely gripping, deeply authoritative, hugely important and lethally lurid’Simon Sebag Montefi… read more
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29. 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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- russian history
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30. The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler--How War Made Them and How They Made War
By: Phillips Payson O'Brien
4.28
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
Churchill. Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Roosevelt. Five of the most impactful leaders of WW2, each wi… read more
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