The Oligarchs: Wealth And Power In The New Russia

by David E Hoffman

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781610390705
Publisher:	PublicAffairs
Publication date:	09/13/2011
Edition description:	Revised Edition
Pages:	608
Sales rank:	532,722
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

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 ix

Prologue 1

Part One

1 Shadows and Shortages 11

2 Alexander Smolensky 31

3 Yuri Luzhkov 54

4 Anatoly Chubais 78

5 Mikhail Khodorkovsky 100

6 Boris Berezovsky 127

7 Vladimir Gusinsky 150

Part Two

8 Unlocking the Treasure 177

9 Easy Money 209

10 The Man Who Rebuilt Moscow 237

11 The Club on Sparrow Hills 270

12 The Embrace of Wealth and Power 296

13 Saving Boris Yeltsin 325

14 The Bankers' War 365

15 Roar of the Dragons 397

16 Hardball and Silver Bullets 442

Epilogue 491

Afterword to the 2003 Paperback Edition 493

Postscript: Where They Are Now, May 2011 501

Notes 503

Bibliography 551

Acknowledgments 556

Index 559