Chris Miller has written an interesting book on the economic development of Russia under Putin. If one allows to sketch roughly, one can say that ordinary Norwegian media coverage of Russia is characterized by a stereotypical way of thinking.
Both in Norway and among the allies there were forces that would have the communists stronger into the resistance struggle. But the later Labor Party leaders kept them out.
By cutting the principles of capitalism to the bone and using an easy-to-understand language, Yanis Varoufakis draws on the essence of modern economics.