Darkness at Dawn

The Rise of the Russian Criminal State

By: David Satter

Narrated by: Paul Brion

"The Russia that Satter depicts in this brave, engaging book cannot be ignored . . . Required reading for anyone interested in the post-Soviet state" (Newsweek).

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.

"With a reporter's eye for vivid detail and a novelist's ability to capture emotion, he conveys the drama of Russia's rocky road for the average victimized Russian . . . This is only half the story of what is happening in Russia these days, but it is the shattering half, and Satter renders it all the more poignant by making it so human."—Foreign Affairs

"[Satter] tells engrossing tales of brazen chicanery, official greed and unbearable suffering . . . Satter manages to bring the events to life with excruciating accounts of real Russians whose lives were shattered."—Baltimore Sun

©2003 David Satter (P)2023 Tantor

Pretty sure an AI read this

It really bothers me that the the intonation on specific phrases are certainly not how a human professionally trained actor would choose, also the lack of pauses where there would naturally be a breath with a human.
I don’t think a human person read this. It feels unnatural.