The fascinating story of the launch of Sputnik, the earth's first ever satellite, and its role in shaping the modern world.
Matthew Brzezinski Libri
Attingendo alla sua vasta esperienza di corrispondente estero, Matthew Brzezinski crea narrazioni che illuminano complessi scenari geopolitici. La sua carriera iniziale come giornalista a Varsavia, scrivendo per il New York Times e The Economist, gli ha fornito una comprensione fondamentale delle dinamiche dell'Europa orientale. Successivi incarichi per il Wall Street Journal a Mosca e Kyiv hanno ulteriormente affinato la sua capacità di analizzare gli affari internazionali. Dopo essersi trasferito negli Stati Uniti, il suo focus si è spostato sulla cronaca del contro-terrorismo per il New York Times Magazine, sottolineando la sua dedizione all'esplorazione di questioni globali critiche.
Casino Moscow. A tale of greed and adventure on capitalism's wildest frontier
- 320pagine
- 12 ore di lettura
"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.
