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Review: Red Notice – How I Became Putin’s No.1 Enemy – by Bill Browder
There is irony in this tale as Bill Browder was following in his grandfather’s footsteps in some ways but was also radically poles apart. Browder’s grandfather had stood for Presidential election in the USA on a Communist ticket. Bill Browder was drawn to business possibilities behind the Iron Curtain and in the post Cold War,… Continue reading
Barack Obama, Berlin Wall, Bill Browder, Capitalism, capitalist, City of London, cold war, Communism, Communist, corruption, crime, Eastern Europe, Europe, European, finance, Gangster, Hermitage, Hermitage Capital Management, Hermitage Fund, Human rights, international business, Iron Curtain, jail, Jew, Jewish, John Kerry, John McCain, justice, Kremlin, law, lawyer, London, Moscow, murder, oligarch, parliament, President, President Obama, prison, Putin, Red Notice, Roberrt Maxwell, Russia, Russian, sanctions, Sergei Magnitsky, Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act, Soviet Union, Stanford, U.K., United States, USA, visa restrictions, Vladimir Putin, Washington, xorruption -
Review: Memoirs – by Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev was one of the most influential and critical figures of the twentieth century. When I was growing up in the 1980s he was part os a set of international world leaders that seemingly had much more influence over people than the political leaders of today. Gorbachev was the last leader of he Soviet… Continue reading
Baltic States, Belorussia, Berlin Wall, Boris Yeltsin, cold war, Communism, Communist, Crimea, espionage, François Mitterand, glasnost, Gorbachev, KGB, Mad, Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, Military, NATO, Nomenclatura, perestroika, Politburo, Politics, Putin, Ronald Reagan, Russia, Soviet Union, Stalin, Ukraine, USSR, Vladmir Putin, Warsaw Pact, World Leader -
Review: Stasiland – Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall – by Anna Funder
The Stasi were the brutal secret police in the GDR (German Democratic Republic) or East Germany. After the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, East and West Germany once again became reunited. Funder is an Australian journalist who, in this award-winning book, explores the Stasi at work… Continue reading
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Review: The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course, and Legacy – by Marifeli Pérez-Stable
The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course, and Legacy by Marifeli Pérez-Stable My rating: 3 of 5 stars I’m doing a university essay question on the Cuban Revolution so felt that this was a good text to read ahead of doing my assignment. The book certainly covers the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath in a lot of… Continue reading
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