Publication

2019 - Yale University Press

Language

English

Word Count

84,000 words, Guess

Page Count

336 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780300243093
  • ISBN-10030024309X
  • OCLC Control Number1052877441
  • Better World Books9780300243093
  • Open LibraryOL33320949M

Classifications

  • LCCHC340.12.A8 2019
  • LCCDK510.763 .A85 2019

Description

This insightful study explores how the economic system Vladimir Putin has developed in Russia works to consolidate control over the country. By appointing his close associates as heads of state enterprises and by giving control of the FSB and the judiciary to his friends from the KGB, he has enriched his business friends from Saint Petersburg with preferential government deals. Thus, Putin has created a super wealthy and loyal plutocracy that owes its existence to authoritarianism. Much of this wealth has been hidden in offshore havens in the United States and the United Kingdom, where companies with anonymous owners and black money transfers are allowed to thrive. Though beneficial to a select few, this system has left Russia's economy in untenable stagnation, which Putin has tried to mask through military might.

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