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Russia`s New Mafiya
Stephen Handelman; Updated with a new preface
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This riveting book is the first comprehensive investigation into the organized crime and corruption that plague Russia today. Describing a society under the sway of gangster bosses, corrupt army generals, bank swindlers, drug dealers, and uranium thieves, the book shows how "mafiya" crime lords and still-powerful former Soviet bureaucrats—so-called "comrade criminals"—have sabotaged their country's attempt at revolution and reform.
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.
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.
Stephen Handelman is a veteran foreign correspondent who writes regularly on international affairs for The Toronto Star. His articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Times of London, Foreign Affairs, The Spectator, and other newspapers and journals. He has testified before the U.S. Senate Helsinki Subcommittee and lectured on Russian crime to the FBI, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Harvard University, and is currently an associate fellow at Columbia University's Harriman Institute.
ISBN: 9780300063868
Publication Date: February 27, 1997
Publication Date: February 27, 1997
408 pages, 6 x 9
Sales Restrictions: For sale in U.S and its territories, Canada, and the United Kingdom only
