The Oligarchs Wealth And Power In The New Russia
by Hoffman, David EEdition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-09-13
Publisher(s): PublicAffairs
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Summary
In this saga of brilliant triumphs and magnificent failures, David E. Hoffman, the former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post, sheds light on the hidden lives of Russia's most feared power brokers: the oligarchs. Focusing on six of these ruthless men-- Alexander Smolensky, Yuri Luzhkov, Anatoly Chubais, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Boris Berezovsky, and Vladimir Gusinsky--Hoffman shows how a rapacious, unruly capitalism was born out of the ashes of Soviet communism.
Author Biography
David E. Hoffman is a contributing editor at the Washington Post. He covered the White House during the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, and was subsequently diplomatic correspondent and Jerusalem correspondent. From 1995 to 2001, he served as Moscow bureau chief, and later as foreign editor and assistant managing editor for foreign news. He is the author of The Dead Hand, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.
Table of Contents
| The Oligarchs, Ten Years Later: An Introduction to the 2011 Paperback Edition | p. ix |
| Prologue | p. 1 |
| Shadows and Shortages | p. 11 |
| Alexander Smolensky | p. 31 |
| Yuri Luzhkov | p. 54 |
| Anatoly Chubais | p. 78 |
| Mikhail Khodorkovsky | p. 100 |
| Boris Berezovsky | p. 127 |
| Vladimir Gusinsky | p. 150 |
| Unlocking the Treasure | p. 177 |
| Easy Money | p. 209 |
| The Man Who Rebuilt Moscow | p. 237 |
| The Club on Sparrow Hills | p. 270 |
| The Embrace of Wealth and Power | p. 296 |
| Saving Boris Yeltsin | p. 325 |
| The Bankers' War | p. 365 |
| Roar of the Dragons | p. 397 |
| Hardball and Silver Bullets | p. 442 |
| Epilogue | p. 491 |
| Afterword to the 2003 Paperback Edition | p. 493 |
| Postscript: Where They Are Now, May 2011 | p. 501 |
| Notes | p. 503 |
| Bibliography | p. 551 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 556 |
| Index | p. 559 |
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