#misha glenny

[yugocar]

the balkans: nationalism, war and the great powers 1804 -2012, misha glenny

[anamon-book]

ユーゴスラヴィアの崩壊 ミーシャ・グレニー、井上健・大坪孝子＝訳、千田善・解説 白水社 装幀＝伊勢功治

[csuitebitches]

2024 reading list

The $100 StartUp

The E-Myth Revisited 

The Four Steps to the Epiphany

Hooked

The Checklist Manifesto

The Lean Startup

Creativity Inc. 

Who - smart and street

Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker

The School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton

Rapport: The Four Ways to Read People by Emily and Laurence Alison

Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me) Third Edition: Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris

Upstream: How to Solve Problems Before They Happen by Dan Heath

Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall

The Revenge of Geography by Robert D. Kaplan

The World: A Brief Introduction by Richard 

The Quest by Daniel Yergin

Who Rules the World? by Noam Chomsky

Day of Empire by Amy Chua

India’s China Challenge by Ananth Krishnan

How to Stage a Coup – Rory Cormac – 2022

Secret History of the Five Eyes (2022) – Richard Kerbaj

Xi: A Study in Power (2022) – Kerry Brown

The India Way by S. Jaishankar

Michael Lewis: Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

David Rubenstein: How to Invest: Masters on the Craft

Elon Musk by Isaacson, Walter

The Man Who Knew - Sebastian Mallaby

Blood and Oil - Bradley Hope, Justin Scheck

Brazillionaires - Alex Cuadros

Empire Of Pain- Patrick Radden Keefe

The Match King - Frank Partnoy

McMafia - Misha Glenny

[mariacallous]

sorry if this is too broad a question but do you have any recommendations of books/general literature about Eastern European history/politics (like fall of USSR-now)? i'm realising with keeping up with the war in Ukraine i don't know nearly enough about Eastern Europe (esp for a western leftist). I know you really like Slavenka Drakulić's work so I thought you might know of some others in that area. i'm sorry if you've been asked this before/it's too much bother + thank you in advance! <3

Oh, I'm always happy to answer this question/provide book recommendations, so no worries :)

Apart from Slavenka Drakulić's work, I would say the following, off the top of my head and looking at my bookshelves:

Anything by Anna Politkovskaya

Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine by Sophie Pinkham (this one would be interesting now considering it came out not too long after Maidan and the Crimea and other annexations)

Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia by Anne Garrels

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took On The West by Catherine Belton

The Impossible Country: A Journey Through the Last Days of Yugoslavia by Brian Hall

In Europe's Shadow by Robert D. Kaplan (and, tentatively, his Balkan Ghosts, just because there's both some skew and quite a bit of stereotyping)

The Balkans by Misha Glenny

The Future is History by Masha Gessen (and really, any of their books, tbh)

Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship by Andrew Wilson

Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation by Laura Silber and Allen Little

The Invention of Russia: The Rise of Putin and the Age of Fake News by Arkady Ostrovsky

Unequal under Socialist: Race, Women, and Transnationalism in Bulgaria by Miglena S. Todorova

All The Kremlin's Men by Mikhail Zygar

Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe and Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum

Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny by Witold Szabłowski

The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe by Marci Shore

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich

Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Tim Mohr

The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii Plokhy

Orbanland: Why Viktor Orbán's Hungary Matters by Lasse Skytt

Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes, Through Darkness and Light by Caroline Eden

The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague by Timothy Garton Ash

And then anything my mutuals/followers would recommend, of course.

[tracksterman]

Three episodes in, this latest iteration of 'The Invention of...' is shaping up well and should be of interest to anybody curious about China.

[rahulrainbow]

MCMAFIA CAST, DOWNLOAD & REVIEW IN ENGLISH & HINDI

MCMAFIA WEB SERIES - THE STORY OF INTERNATIONAL DRUG CARTEL.

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[kkintle]

McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld by Misha Glenny; Quotes

For no organized criminal is as successful as the one who enjoys the backing of the state.

Trust is essential to the smooth functioning of any organized criminal activity. Except, that is, when the commodity being traded is a human being. In this instance, deceit must masquerade as trust.

Those ties referred to one of the five key commodities from which organized crime groups around the world make their largest profits: diamonds. The other four are arms, narcotics, energy products, and cigarettes.

“American policy in the Middle East is held hostage to the fear that if you push someone too much, then you might end up with someone a lot worse.

Capital itself is neither dirty nor clean—it is human activity and human values that determine the color of money.

“I dove under the truck, careful to place a little blanket underneath so I didn’t pick up too much dirt—it’s those little touches that make the difference between professionals like me and the amateurs who will at some point get caught.”

“It doesn’t matter whether the cat is black or white,” mused Deng Xiaoping when he was explaining the need to introduce economic reforms in the 1980s. “It only matters if it catches mice.” 

“It doesn’t matter whether the mice are black or white,” as Deng’s saying has now been paraphrased, “as long as they avoid the cat.”

[jamesginortonblog]

by Michael Hogan

[...]

A second series of McMafia has been commissioned. What can you tell us about that?

It’s currently in the writer’s room. It’s set two years later and Alex Godman [played by James Norton] is now a proper organised crime figure. He’s grown into the job and it’ll be a much more confident, less tight-lipped Alex than we saw before. It’s going to be great fun.

TheGuardian.com

[yugocar]

likely thing for him to be

[beatrixacs]

The Falcone/Borsellino coin does really fit well into my book collection 👌 Thank you for your work and your sacrifice, gentlemen...

[end-of-the-world-optimist]

Well, color me confused. Anyway, I would rather have hope and belive this version ☝️😊

[faustandfurious]

Ok so there’s Milovan Djilas: Conversations with Stalin, if you want to go down the rabbit hole of Soviet-Yugoslav tensions in the 1940s, but if you’re new to the topic I’d suggest getting a bit of background on the situation first. A good place to start would be by reading at least one book on the Russian Revolution, maybe China Mieville’s October (which I haven’t read yet, but I like Mieville’s fiction writing and I’ve heard good things about the book), and maybe one about Balkan in the 20th century, Misha Glenny might be a good place to start. It also helps a lot with the who’s who of Soviet politics if you’ve seen The Death of Stalin (2017). In a similar vein, there’s The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes, about Shostakovich and his life in the USSR, a brilliantly sad biographical novel where I wanted to underline every other paragraph.

If this isn’t your cup of tea, we have Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet, which is honestly extremely accessible to anyone who has been exposed to Tumblr style aesthetic yearning textposts. But like, in a good way. But really, Pessoa would have done numbers on this website.

Then there’s Garman & Worse by Alexander Kielland, which is in some ways Buddenbrooks for people who thought Buddenbrooks was too long, depressing and German.

Also, Peter McPhee’s Robespierre biography is very good, if that’s your kind of thing.

microdosing literary liveblogging until you all have been tricked into reading the same books as me, at which point I’ll bring out the truly hot takes

[norton-addiction]

James Norton and Juliet Rylance at a photocall for BBC OneÕs McMafia at BAFTA in London.

[j-august]

Misha Glenny, McMafia

[uacboo]

BBC Director General Tony Hall has called AMC co-pro McMafia, the Godfather-influenced gangster drama starring James Norton, one of the most “ambitious” shows it has ever produced.

The eight-part thriller, which will air in early 2018, stars War & Peace’s Norton as a young banker drawn into the shady underworld as a result of his family’s Russian history. In wide-ranging interview, the creators and stars of the show discussed how corruption is global and the journey of the show from book to screen, while Norton addressed rumors of him eventually playing James Bond.

Hall said McMafia, which is produced by Cuba Pictures, shows the “capacity” of the BBC’s drama slate and the broadcaster’s ambition to “keep on pushing the boundaries in primetime.” “It’s both a very intimate portrait of a family and also an intriguing and pulsating thriller. It exudes excitement and gravitas and is one of the most ambitious productions we’ve ever done. It’s a big international drama but it’s a story that’s rooted in family,” he added.

The series is based on a book by former BBC news correspondent Misha Glenny and was adapted by Drive’s Hossein Amini and The Woman in Black’s James Watkins in association with Twickenham Studios and BBC Worldwide. It will air on BBC One, U.S cable network AMC and Amazon Prime Video around the world, including Russia.

The show charts the journey of Alex Godman (Norton), a young hedge fund manager and English-raised son of Russian exiles with mob connections. He is drawn into the murky criminal underworld, while also protecting his British girlfriend Rebecca (Juliet Rylance). Maria Shukshina (the “Meryl Streep of Russia”) and Leviathan’s Aleksey Serebryakov play Norton’s parents, alongside Faye Marsay as his sister Katya and David Dencik as his uncle Boris. Bourne star David Strathairn plays Israeli shipping magnate Semiyon Kleiman.

To continue reading this interesting article: http://deadline.com/2017/12/mcmafia-james-nortons-multi-million-dollar-james-bond-audition-set-for-bbc-amc-launch-in-2018-1202229057/amp/?

[filipmagnuswrites]

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