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“daniel treisman”

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  • Spin Dictators

    The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century

    by Daniel Treisman, Sergei Guriev ...
    **A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearAn Atlantic Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Politics Book of the YearHow a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracy**Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology. But in recent decades a new breed of media-savvy strongmen has been redesigning ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Return

    Russia's Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev

    by Daniel Treisman ...
    A refreshing and deeply reported look at the political, economic, and cultural changes in Russia, with an in-depth examination of Vladimir Putin’s rise, the power of the oligarchy, and what it means for the world.Almost twenty-five years after Mikhail Gorbachev began radically reshaping his country, Russia has changed beyond recognition. In his third book on this subject, Professor Daniel Treisman ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The New Autocracy

    Information, Politics, and Policy in Putin's Russia

    Edited by Daniel Treisman ...
    Corruption, fake news, and the "informational autocracy" sustaining Putin in powerAfter fading into the background for many years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia suddenly has emerged as a new threat-at least in the minds of many Westerners. But Western assumptions about Russia, and in particular about political decision-making in Russia, tend to be out of date or just plain ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    Spin Dictators

    The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century

    by Sergei Guriev, Daniel Treisman ...
    Narrated by David de Vries ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 23 min

    Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology. But in recent decades a new breed of media-savvy strongmen has been redesigning authoritarian rule for a more sophisticated, globally connected world. In place of overt, mass repression, rulers such as Vladimir Putin, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Viktor Orbán control their citizens by distorting information and simulating democratic ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    by Svetlana Alexievich ...
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  • Alix and Nicky

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    The dramatic story of Emperor Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna, the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia—A penetrating and deeply personal study that gives profound psychological insight into their marriage and how it shaped the events that engulfed them.There are few characters in history about whom opinion has been more divided than the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, and his wife the ... Read more

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  • The Zhivago Affair

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    by Peter Finn, Petra Couvée ...
    Drawing on newly declassified government files, this is the dramatic story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West.In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to a village just outside Moscow to visit Russia’s greatest living poet, Boris Pasternak. He left carrying the original manuscript of Pasternak’s first ... Read more

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  • Peter the Great

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  • The Red Web

    The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries

    by Andrei Soldatov, Irina Borogan ...
    A Library Journal Best Book of 2015A NPR Great Read of 2015The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps both.On the eighth floor of an ordinary-looking building in an otherwise residential district of southwest Moscow, in a room occupied by the Federal Security Service (FSB), is a box the size of a VHS ... Read more

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  • Hearts Grown Brutal

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  • Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution

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