Ergebnis für "Das Verbrechen" in Russland

How did a once faceless bureaucrat, a man whose own wife said he was born under the sign of the vampire, become the idealized face of Russian manhood and its authoritarian leader? Deputy Mayor Putin examines the man behind the myth. We will explore how Putin’s formative years shaped and drove him and how the supporting cast of characters he gathered along the way helped him get to the Kremlin’s inner sanctum.

Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western listeners can explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone, a group that has survived and thrived amid the changes brought on by Stalinism, the Cold War, the Afghan War, and the end of the Soviet experiment.

Anticipating a new dawn of freedom after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russians could hardly have foreseen the reality of their future a decade later: a country impoverished and controlled at every level by organized crime. This riveting book views the 1990s reform period through the experiences of individual citizens, revealing the changes that have swept Russia and their effect on Russia's age-old ways of thinking.

Den 29 april 1918 stoppar man tsar Nikolaj Romanov och hans tyskfödda hustru Alexandra i den ryska staden Jekaterinburg. Hela tsarfamiljen på sju personer har varit under arrest i 13 månader, först i Petrograd och senare i Tobolsk. Den nya regeringen avskyr honom och har lett en obarmhärtig kampanj för att vända det ryska folket emot tsarfamiljen. Jekaterinburg, den tredje största staden i Ryssland har blivit ett skrämmande centrum för bolsjevikernaeras fiende nummer ett, Nikolaj.