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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783957803321

Autore

Goldman Marshall I.

Titolo

The piratization of Russia : Russian reform goes awry / / Marshall I. Goldman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-134-37684-7

0-429-23432-5

0-415-31529-8

1-134-37685-5

1-280-05470-0

0-203-56334-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Classificazione

83.32

Disciplina

330.947

Soggetti

Oligarchy - Russia (Federation)

Commercial crimes - Russia (Federation)

Businessmen - Russia (Federation) - Political activity

Russia (Federation) Economic policy 1991-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Russia's financial buccaneers: the wild and woolly East; Setting the stage: the Russian economy in the post-communist era; The legacy of the czarist era: untenable and unsavory roots; It's broke, so fix it: the Stalinist and Gorbachev legacies; Privatization: good intentions, but the wrong advice at the wrong time; The nomenklatura oligarchs; The upstart oligarchs; FIMACO, the Russian Central Bank, and money laundering at the highest level; Corruption, crime, and the Russian Mafia; Who says there was no better way?

Confidence or con game: what will it take?Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In 1991, a small group of Russians emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union and enjoyed one of the greatest transfers of wealth ever seen, claiming ownership of some of the most valuable petroleum, natural gas and metal deposits in the world. By 1997, five of those



individuals were on Forbes Magazine's list of the world's richest billionaires. These self-styled oligarchs were accused of using guile, intimidation and occasionally violence to reap these rewards. Marshall I. Goldman argues against the line that the course adopted by President Yeltsin was the only one open to Russ