- Hardcover: 480 pages
- Publisher: Longman; 1 edition (Dec 25 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0582357640
- ISBN-13: 978-0582357648
- Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 16.2 x 2.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 839 g
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,322,117 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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`Martin McCauley is one of the few authorities writing in English who understands the shocking scale and range of the cancer of post-Soviet crime. His book is both important and frightening.¿ John Simpson, World Affairs Unit BBC
Book Description
During the 1990s, the "roving bandits", big business or the oligarchs, stole Russia. They gained influence over President Yeltsin and his government, and gradually shaped policy in their own interests. In this first comprehensive account to explain why Russia took the course it did, Martin McCauley examines the period through the prism of government, including Yeltsin's shadow government, and looks at the military, police, security and intelligence services. Relations between Moscow and the regions, industry, agriculture, social policy and foreign policy are also explored.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
stinks,
By Max Power (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bandits, Gangsters and the Mafia: Russia, the Baltic States and the CIS since 1991 (Hardcover)
This book was lacklustre. Just more of the attitudes you find in the Economist.Unless you want a case study of wearisome prejudice and crazy theories, give it a pass.
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Waste of Money,
By A Customer
This review is from: Bandits, Gangsters and the Mafia: Russia, the Baltic States and the CIS since 1991 (Hardcover)
I got this book thinking I could get some objective insights into Russia's severe economic difficulties throughout the 90s. Instead, I got a long rant against everything Russian. Particularly dubious is McCauley's sympathy for the Wahhabi bin Laden-sponsored Islamofascists in Chechnya who have been responsible for all kinds of atrocities. I guess their suicide bombings are justified, because they kill evil Russians and not members of the English Royal Family? Oh well. Sergio Vieira de Mello was an apologist for Islamofascists too, but they still murdered him regardless.
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Absurd,
By A Customer
This review is from: Bandits, Gangsters and the Mafia: Russia, the Baltic States and the CIS since 1991 (Hardcover)
Yet another British anti-Russian book. We've heard and seen it all before.The most tiresome thing is the petty Putin "KGB spy" scaremongering. It is time to move on, Martin.
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