The Oligarchs Wealth And Power In The New Russia

by Hoffman, David E

• ISBN13: 9781610390705
• ISBN10: 1610390709
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-13
• Publisher: PublicAffairs

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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