Preview

Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks, and podcasts.
You will get an email reminder before your trial ends.
Audible Plus auto-renews for $7.95/mo after 30 days. Upgrade or cancel anytime.

Ep. 1: Rise of the Oligarch

By: Misha Glenny
Try for $0.00

$7.95 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

  • Summary

  • The seeds of Putin's rise to power lie in a slightly unusual place: 1990s Moscow where, after 70 years of communism, "gangster capitalism" arrived.

    Here we tell the story of how a young graduate student at The Institute of Controlled Sciences became one of the richest men in Russia and the Kremlin's Power Broke - Boris Berezovsky.

    ©2019 Audible, Ltd. (P)2019 Audible, Ltd.
    Show more Show less
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

What listeners say about Ep. 1: Rise of the Oligarch

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    46
  • 4 Stars
    7
  • 3 Stars
    3
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    37
  • 4 Stars
    7
  • 3 Stars
    4
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    40
  • 4 Stars
    4
  • 3 Stars
    3
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    1

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Misha Glenny knows the Russian power game

As absorbing and engaging as "McMafia," with tighter focus on Putin. Spooky music is meh.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Excellent

I like this podcast. For those who consider themselves to be "Kremlin watchers", it's a lot of the same information as contained in books such as Putin's People, From Russia with Blood, Moneyland, Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin etc.
But I like to corroborate the information I seek out about Putin's 🇷🇺, given the fact that it is a place where disinformation, conspiracy theories & deceptions are hatched and then injected into the populace by Russian intelligence. I definitely recommend all of those books as well as this podcast to every American, and further, every person living in the other Western democracies, too. Putin and his regime have devoted DECADES to making a study of our governments, histories, societies. We must, as a matter of self-defense, do the same, make a careful study of everything about 🇷🇺 and the ruling regime there. Knowing your enemy and all that. Plus, this podcast is a perfect example of how interesting a task that turns out to be. No excuses! It's necessary but I promise, it really doesn't even feel like work.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    1 out of 5 stars

Unproven accusations

This podcast is a good timeline of Putin in power and deals very well superficially with the main happenings but I dislike the continuous accusations that may be true but they are not talked through during the podcast. You can't just say it is a time where everyone can be killed and then not talk about how is that so. Everything is melodramatic but not well explained. In general, I got no substantial knowledge out of this.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    3 out of 5 stars

eh...

if really love it if all these were like five hours or had recommendations for further reading on the given subject as the production values are good the sources seems to know their stuff but they're so nebulous...

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful