Comrade criminal : Russia's new mafiya
Based on interviews with more than 150 Russians - from mobsters to police to former KGB agents - this text is an investigation into the organized crime and corruption that plague Russia today. It aims to reveal how crime has flourished in Russia since the demise of totalitarianism.
Print Book, English, [1997]
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Yale University Press, New Haven, [1997]
x, 398 pages ; 25 cm
9780300063868, 0300063865
1001917615
Thieves world
Vor
Mozhaisky embankment
Comrade criminal
Life and death on the Russian frontier
The criminal state
Post-Soviet man
How to steal a billion rubles
Masters of Moscow
"They can shoot, they can kill"
The smugglers
Narco-Bizness
The guns of Grozny
Red army Bazaar
The Baltic connection
The evil empire revisited
Cops and commissars
General Sterligov and his friends
The Chinatown gang
Who lost Russia?
"Updated with a new preface"--Cover