Introduction -- Telling tales -- Crime-time stories -- From bandits to Bolsheviks to Brezhnev -- Shadowlands: the Gorbachev years -- Comrade capitalists: the tale of crime and economy in the 'new' Russia -- The Sovietising of western society -- From fear to fraternity.
Summary
A unique analysis of the development of Russian organised crime. The end of communism marked the re-emergence of a huge rise in organised crime across Russia and Eastern Europe. High-profile efforts to combat it have met with little success.
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