Bill Browder's journey started on the South Side of Chicago and moved through Stanford Business School to the dog-eat-dog world of hedge fund investing in the 1990s. It continued in Moscow, where Browder made his fortune heading the largest investment fund in Russia after the So…
A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin?s corruption. Bill Browder?s journey started on the South Side of Chicago and moved through Sta…
A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin's corruption.
Bill Browder's journey started on the South Side of Chicago and moved through Stanford Business School to the dog-eat-dog world of hedge fund investing in the 1990s. It continued in Moscow, where Browder made his fortune heading the largest investment fund in Russia after the So…
This book is an ideal text for students studying a key period of Soviet economic history. It brings together and makes available in textbook form the results of the latest research on Soviet industrialisation, using a vast amount of primary evidence, and the methods of quantitat…
Presents theoretical and comparative perspectives on the factors affecting Russian regime changes since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the country's drift to "electoral authoritarianism", essentially authoritarian rule with the trappings of democratic institutions
Presents theoretical and comparative perspectives on the factors affecting Russian regime changes since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the country's drift to "electoral authoritarianism", essentially authoritarian rule with the trappings of democratic institutions
Presents theoretical and comparative perspectives on the factors affecting Russian regime changes since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the country's drift to "electoral authoritarianism", essentially authoritarian rule with the trappings of democratic institutions.
By day, he taught spycraft at the CIA's clandestine training center, The Farm. By night, he was a minivan-driving single father racing home to have dinner with his kids. But for more than two years, Jim Nicholson met covertly with agents of Russia's foreign intelligence service …
The increasing significance and visibility of relationships between religion and public arenas and institutions following the fall of communism in Europe provide the core focus of this fascinating book. Leading international scholars consider the religious and political role of …
The rise of the West is often attributed to the presence of certain features in Western countries from the 16th century onwards such as the abolition of serfdom and protestant ethics, the protection of property rights, and free universities; elements that were absent in more tra…
The rise of the West is often attributed to the presence of certain features in Western countries from the 16th century onwards such as the abolition of serfdom and protestant ethics, the protection of property rights, and free universities; elements that were absent in more tra…