The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia
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In this saga of brilliant triumphs and magnificent failures, David E. Hoffman, the former Moscow...
The Putin Mystique: Inside Russia's Power Cult
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Vladimir Putin, seen through Western eyes, is strong-willed, unpredictable, venal, and vain. The...
The Politics of Power: EU-Russia Energy Relations in the 21st Century: 2017
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This book sheds new light on the complex EU-Russia relationship, by providing the first...
The Power of Language and Rhetoric in Russian Political History: Charismatic Words from the 18th to the 21st Centuries
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This book examines the rhetorical force of certain key words in the discourses of Russian state,...
Behaving Madly: Zany, Loco, Cockeyed, Rip-off, Satire Magazines
Jack Kirby, Jack Davis, John Severin and Al Jaffee
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When "Mad" was turned into a magazine in 1954, every publisher and his uncle came up with his own...