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,...