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The Vory
The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the Soviet-era gulags to become Russia’s international criminal class. Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western readers can explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone, a criminal organization that has survived and thrived through Stalinism, the Cold War, the Afghan War, and the end of the Soviet experiment. The vory—as the Russian mafia is also known—was born early in the twentieth century, largely in the Gulags and criminal camps, where they developed their unique culture. Identified by their signature tattoos, members abided by the thieves’ code, a strict system that forbade all paid employment and cooperation with law enforcement and the state. Based on two decades of on-the-ground research, Galeotti’s captivating study details the vory’s journey to power from their early days to their adaptation to modern-day Russia’s free-wheeling oligarchy and global opportunities beyond.
Industrial and Urban Growth Policies at the Sub-National, National, and Global Levels
Recent global shifts in population have led to the fast urbanization of Africa. For Africa and the developing world, choosing the right policy strategies, processes, and tools are essential to turning urban centers into engines of industry and economic prosperity. Industrial and Urban Growth Policies at the Sub-National, National, and Global Levels is a pivotal reference source that examines current and evolving conditions of industrial and urban policies and their relationships around the world, especially between developed and developing economies. While highlighting topics such as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, urban policy, and global common good, this publication seeks to deepen and broaden the understanding of transformation in industrial development and responses to emerging urbanization processes. This book is ideally designed for industrial planners, entrepreneurs, urban development authorities, policymakers, academicians, researchers, and students.
Digital Economy: Complexity and Variety vs. Rationality
This proceedings book features selected papers from the 9th National Scientific and Practical Conference “Digital Economy: Complexity and Variety Vs. Rationality,” which took place on April 17–18, 2019, in Vladimir (Russian Federation). It presents the latest research in the field of the digital economy, discussing its role in the creation of advantages for the state, entrepreneurship, and society, as well as the emergence of new economic risks. The chapters address the following topics: the importance of economy’s digital modernization, tools for the formation of the digital economy in Russia, specific features and perspectives of digital modernization of the regional economy, an ov...
The Political Economy of Russia
This timely book explores Russia's political development since the collapse of the USSR and how inextricably it has been bound up with economic change. Assessing the legacies of the Soviet period, leading scholars trace the evolution of Russia's political economy and how it may develop as bitter battles continue to be waged over property and state revenues, the development of private agriculture, and welfare. This book puts these domestic issues in international and comparative perspective by considering Russia's position in the global economy and its growing role as a major energy producer. Focusing especially on the nature and future of Russian capitalism, the contributors weigh the political problems that confront Russia in its ongoing struggle to modernize and develop its economy.
Uncovered
Uncovered is the life story of eighty-three-year-old cold war veteran John Sager. An operations officer in the Central Intelligence Agency, his postings to pre-revolutionary Iran, Gamal Abdel Nasser's Egypt, and Nikita Khrushchev' s Soviet Russia thrust him into the midst of America's most tumultuous half-century since World War II. The author's memoir reveals an up-close vision of the nitty-gritty of cold-war intelligence work: recruiting and handling agents, devising ways to insert them into the hermetically sealed Soviet Union, managing the CIA's Moscow station, and running intelligence-gathering operations in the United States. Over his fifty-plus years of service, he experienced much of...
Big Fish
When Professor Michael Rayback parades past the American Embassy in Moscow along with thousands of Russians protesting the August 1991 coup against Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the American's thoughts are on Russia's future, not its past. But the face of a loved one in the crowd drives Rayback back to a power struggle that has haunted him for seven years. In 1984, with an infirm General Secretary on the verge of death or retirement, contenders for power had begun to jockey for position. One of the front-runners, known in Finnish State Police Archives as Big Fish could be eliminated by exposure of a page from his past. A KGB colonel is sent to New York City to discover what Rayback knows about the identity of Big Fish based on his archival research in Helsinki. The KGB colonel also plants the seed of American involvement in a plot to assassinate a member of the Soviet Politburo. When the assassination takes place, Moscow and Washington join hands to unravel three threads in the web of intrigue: personal ambition, self-preservation, and abrogation of a nearly completed treaty on anti-satellite space weapons.
Multidisciplinary Analysis of Digital Transformation and Global Market Dynamics
In today's fast-evolving digital landscape, businesses, governments, and societies are grappling with the complex challenges of digital transformation. From shifting market dynamics to integrating new technologies, the need for a comprehensive understanding of these changes has never been greater. Traditional industries, such as transport and logistics, face the daunting task of re-engineering themselves to remain competitive in a digitally driven world. Furthermore, the economic security of regions and nations is increasingly dependent on data analytics and risk assessment, making it crucial for policymakers to adapt to this new paradigm. Multidisciplinary Analysis of Digital Transformation...
