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A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin
A Library Journal 2020 Title to Watch"Terrific - and an amazing achievement to cover so much ground in such a short and wonderfully readable book." -Peter Frankopan, bestselling …
Vory; Russlands supermafia
På innsiden av verdens tøffeste og mest nådeløse mafia. En thriller fra virkeligheten. Dette er boken om Russlands mest fryktede kriminelle gruppering: vory v zakone. Vory - «tyv» …
The Age of Anxiety
The geography of Russia -- vast, unwieldy, exposed -- and her tragic history of foreign invasion have created an overriding sense of military vulnerability amongst her leaders …
Armies of Russia's War in Ukraine
Explaining and illustrating the immediate background to the current Russian invasion of Ukraine, this book investigates the Ukrainian and Russian regular and irregular forces which …
Storm-333
Storm-333, the operation to seize Kabul and assassinate Afghan leader Hafizullah Amin, was at once a textbook success and the start of a terrible blunder. It heralded the Soviet …
The Politics of Security in Modern Russia
The Putin era saw a striking 'securitization' of politics, something that he has bequeathed to his chosen successor, Dmitry Medvedev. The omens from the early days of the Medvedev …
Politics of Security in Modern Russia
The Putin era saw a striking 'securitization' of politics, something that he has bequeathed to his chosen successor, Dmitry Medvedev. The omens from the early days of the Medvedev …
Russia s Wars in Chechnya 1994 2009
In this fully illustrated book an expert on the conflicts traces the progress of the wars in Chechnya, from the initial Russian advance through to urban battles such as Grozny, and …
Russian Political War
This book cuts through the misunderstandings about Russia’s geopolitical challenge to the West, presenting this not as ‘hybrid war’ but ‘political war.’Russia seeks to antagonise: …
Russian and Post-Soviet Organized Crime
A timely look at a widespread yet largely uninvestigated area of Russian life. Chapters include: consideration of the history and basis in culture for the organization of crime in …
Paths of Wickedness and Crime
There were shadows to the Italian Renaissance. Just as art and philosophy were flourishing, so too were darker practices, from murder-for-hire to prostitution. However, despite …