The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia

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.

Author: David E. Hoffman
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 09/13/2011
Pages: 608
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.56w x 1.62d
ISBN13: 9781610390705
ISBN10: 1610390709
BISAC Categories:
- History | Russia & the Former Soviet Union
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
- Business & Economics | Economic Conditions

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.