The piratization of Russia : Russian reform goes awry /
Marshall I. Goldman.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
- viii, 289 p. ; 22 cm.
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-278) and index.
Russia's financial bucaneers: the wild and wooly 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 -- Corruption, crime and the Russian mafia -- Who says there was no better way? -- Confidence or con game: what will it take?