The fascinating story of the launch of Sputnik, the earth's first ever satellite, and its role in shaping the modern world.
Matthew Brzezinski Livres
S'appuyant sur sa vaste expérience de correspondant à l'étranger, Matthew Brzezinski crée des récits qui éclairent des paysages géopolitiques complexes. Sa carrière précoce de journaliste à Varsovie, écrivant pour The New York Times et The Economist, lui a fourni une compréhension fondamentale de la dynamique de l'Europe de l'Est. Des missions ultérieures pour The Wall Street Journal à Moscou et à Kiev ont encore perfectionné sa capacité à analyser les affaires internationales. Après son retour aux États-Unis, son attention s'est portée sur la couverture du contre-terrorisme pour The New York Times Magazine, soulignant son engagement à explorer des problèmes mondiaux critiques.
Casino Moscow. A tale of greed and adventure on capitalism's wildest frontier
- 320pages
- 12 heures de lecture
"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.
