The fascinating story of the launch of Sputnik, the earth's first ever satellite, and its role in shaping the modern world.
Matthew Brzezinski Volgorde van de boeken
Voortbouwend op zijn uitgebreide ervaring als buitenlandcorrespondent, creëert Matthew Brzezinski verhalen die complexe geopolitieke landschappen belichten. Zijn vroege carrière als journalist in Warschau, waar hij schreef voor The New York Times en The Economist, gaf hem een fundamenteel begrip van de Oost-Europese dynamiek. Latere opdrachten voor The Wall Street Journal in Moskou en Kiev verfijnden zijn vermogen om internationale aangelegenheden te ontleden. Na zijn verhuizing naar de VS verschoof zijn focus naar berichtgeving over contraterrorisme voor The New York Times Magazine, wat zijn toewijding aan het onderzoeken van kritieke mondiale kwesties onderstreept.
- 2007
- 2001
Casino Moscow. A tale of greed and adventure on capitalism's wildest frontier
- 320bladzijden
- 12 uur lezen
"Having awakened from its communist slumber, Russia in the roaring nineties is a place where everything and everyone is for sale and fortunes can be made and lost overnight. Into this maelstrom steps rookie Wall Street Journal reporter Matthew Brzezinski. Assigned to make sense of the financial markets, he is instantly plunged into the crazed world of Russian capitalism, where corrupt Moscow bankers and American carpetbaggers preside over the greatest boom and bust in international financial history.". "Brzezinski knows he's in over his head; what he comes to realize is that so is the entire country. The government of Boris Yeltsin is under the thumb of seven powerful men known as "the oligarchs," and a flamboyant businessman from Chechnya - even as his homeland is under siege by Russian troops - has set himself up as one of Moscow's most notorious powerbrokers. Meanwhile, the gap between haves and have-nots is widening into an abyss. Among Moscow's elite, solid-gold bathroom fixtures are de rigueur, while in Vladivostok, the last stop on the Trans-Siberian railway, long-suffering citizens must buy water by the pail from the local mafia."--BOOK JACKET.
