Comrade criminal : Russia's new mafiya /

Comrade criminal : Russia's new mafiya /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Handelman, Stephen.
Imprint:	New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1995.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 398 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Organized crime -- Russia (Federation) Political corruption -- Russia (Federation) Post-communism -- Russia (Federation) Organized crime. Political corruption. Politics and government. Post-communism. Social conditions. Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1991- Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991- Russia (Federation) Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11114106

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ISBN:	0585371660 9780585371665
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-389) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Stephen Handelman, Moscow bureau chief for The Toronto Star from 1987 to 1992, has based his book on interviews with more than 150 Russians - mobsters, police, political crusaders, former KGB agents, new millionaires, and ordinary citizens. Handelman traces the roots of the criminal underworld to elements of society that have existed on the margins of Russian life for centuries and that during the last twenty years of Soviet power became an essential arm of the black-market economy. He reveals how organized crime has flourished since the demise of totalitarianism, and how the Russian mafiya has begun to export to American cities not only guns and drugs but also its particular brand of mob violence. And he shows the detrimental effects crime has had - and will continue to have - on political and economic reform in the new states of the former Soviet Union.
Other form:	Print version: Handelman, Stephen. Comrade criminal. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1995 0300063520

Table of Contents:

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?