Bücher von Mark Galeotti

The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia's much-feared crime class: the vory v zakone

A The Times best book of 2019'In fewer than 150 pithy pages, Galeotti sketches a bleak, but convincing picture of the man in the Kremlin and the political system that he dominates' - The TimesMeet the world's most dangerous man.

'Absolutely gripping, deeply authoritative, hugely important and lethally lurid'Simon Sebag Montefiore, Sunday Times bestselling author of The World: A Family HistoryYevgeny Prigozhin emerged as one of the most dangerous warlords in the world and as one of Vladimir Putin's chief rivals in Russia's tumultuous political climate, exiled after leading Wagner's attempted coup and killed in a mysterious plane crash. But what is the truth about this enigmatic figure, his role in the war with Ukraine, and the chaos unleashed across Russia by his turn against Putin? And, in the aftermath of his death, what is next for Russia in the new stage of late Putinism that Prigozhin's life forged?Drawing on years of research, this book traces the rise of Russia's most prominent non-state actor and examines the political climate that propelled a convicted gangster with no government office to the formidable role he came to occupy. An essential story of Russia's recent history, Downfall is also a compelling insight into its likely future.

THE BIRCHBARK CHRONICLES 1 - THE GOLDEN HORDE "From the fury of the Tatars, oh lord, deliver us..." The steppe nomads of the Golden Horde under their Mongol overlords have built a mighty empire, stretching across Asia and into the lands of the Rus'. This companion to the MYTHIC RUSSIA roleplaying game reveals more about the past conquests of the Golden Horde, its present peoples (including a full guide to the Bashkorts, one of the constituent peoples of the Horde) and its future troubles. Also includes maps, story seeds and a scenario. This is the basic, saddle-stitched version with black & white interior pages. A perfect-bound version with colour inside pages is also available (also as a PDF download).

There were shadows to the Italian Renaissance. Just as art and philosophy were flourishing, so too were darker practices, from murder-for-hire to prostitution. However, despite popular parallels between families like the Borgia and the Medici and the Mafia, there has been little systematic examination of the presenceof organised crime in the era. In this short and lively essay, Mark Galeotti rereads and occasionally reinterprets the rich secondary literature to introduce a cast of corrupt princes, bandit chieftains, professional assassins, human traffickers, thugs and conmen andsuggest that there were signs of the early beginnings of organised criminality in the towns and cities of late medieval and Renaissance Italy.An historian and political scientist, Mark Galeotti is Professor of Global Affairs at New York University's SCPS Center for Global Affairs.

EIN UNVERZICHTBARER LEITFADEN ZUM VERSTÄNDNIS DER RUSSISCHEN HISTORIERussland ist eine der mächtigsten Nationen der Erde, mit einer imposanten Kultur, aber auch einer langen Geschichte von Krieg, Leid und blutigen Revolutionen. Der Russland-Experte Mark Galeotti widmet sich in seiner Erzählung diesem komplexen Land. Er durchleuchtet die russische Geschichte von ihren Anfängen mit der Kiewer Rus über den Aufstieg und Fall der Romanows, schildert die kommunistische Revolution unter Lenin und den stalinistischen Terror bis in die heutige postsowjetische Autokratie Putins.'FASZINIEREND. EINER DER SCHARF-SINNIGSTEN KOMMENTATOREN DER ÄRA PUTIN - UND DES MODERNEN RUSSLANDS.'Financial Times

This volume illustrates the way the war in Afghanistan fed into a wide range of other processes, from the rise of grassroots political activism to the retreat from globalism in foreign policy.

Covers "security", incorporating military doctrine, political skulduggery, international relations and economic stablilty, seeking to knit them together into a coherent whole. The book follows a broadly chronological line and each chapter contains a chronology.