A book I just read that I highly recommend: Red Notice by Bill Browder. The true story about how a grandson of the American Communist Party's 1940 presidential candidate made millions of dollars investing in Russia in the 1990s, and became one of Putin's most hated enemies.
I also felt a bit of antipathy for the author. Something about a capitalist traveling to the former USSR, in it's vulnerable time of rebirth, and exploiting poor uneducated people to make a profit rubbed me the wrong way.
