Every businessman is a roving bandit. He is always on the lookout
for something to steal. Seize everything which is not nailed down
and why not try to take that as well? With apologies to Marx, he
engages in primitive theft accumulation. Interviewee!
- Wide ranging coverage of government, the economy, the military,
the security services, intelligence, society and foreign
policy.
- Explains the reasons Russia took the course it did and examines
Yeltsin's legacy and puts Putin's impact under the microscope.
- Covers all 15 former Soviet republics, is accessible and
illustrated with cartoons and photos.
During the 1990s, with the shift from Communism to capitalism, the
"roving bandits," big business or the oligarchs, stole Russia. They
gained influence over President Yeltsin and his government and
gradually shaped policy in their own interests. In the first
comprehensive attempt to explain why Russia took the course it did,
Martin McCauley names names. He examines the period through the
prism of government, including Yeltsin's shadow government, the
military, police, security and intelligence services. Relations
between Moscow and the regions, industry, agriculture, social
policy and foreign policy are also explored.
Martin McCauley has been a regular contributor to ABC, NBC and
CBS news for over 20 years on anything to do with Soviet Union,
Russia and CIS, and the Balkans. Most recently he has been
interviewed about the Balkans and Milosevic and the Bush/Putin
meeting on the NBC and ABC networks. He is senior lecturer with the
University of London, was the Chairman of the Ford Foundation
Research and Development committee (1984-97), Chairman ofthe
National Association of Soviet and East European Studies,
(1986-89), Deputy Chairman - British National Association of
Slavonic and East European Studies (1989-90) and was a member of
the ESRC East-West Initiative and Policy and Research Committee,
1990-92). He has published more than 20 books, one of the most
recent of which is Gorbachev, in the Longman Profiles in Power
series.
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