- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Yale University Press; First Edition edition (3 Jun 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0300098928
- ISBN-13: 978-0300098921
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.7 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,338,812 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"David Satter has written a compelling and provocative indictment of post-Soviet Russia. He grounds his stern judgment in years of his own reporting on real people's experiences, and he brings to the task he has set himself a powerful intellect. This book is a major contribution to the debate over what has happened in Russia - and why, and what it means." Strobe Talbott, president, The Brookings Institution
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Anticipating a new dawn of freedom and democracy after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russians could hardly have foreseen the reality of their future a decade later: a country desperately impoverished and controlled at every level by criminals. This is the story of the 1990s reform period in Russia through the experiences of individual citizens. Recounting in detail the development of a new era of oppression, journalist David Satter conveys the staggering nature of the changes that have swept Russian life, society and ways of thinking. Through the stories of people at all levels of Russian society, Satter describes fraudulent investment schemes, massive corruption, and the intrusion of organized crime everywhere. With insights derived from more than 20 years of writing and reporting on Russia, Satter considers why the individual human being there has historically counted for so little. He also offers an analysis of how Russia's post-Soviet fate was decided when a new morality failed to fill the vast moral vacuum that communism left in its wake.
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
What can I say? I lived in Russia for 21 years and this book is the only independent and truthful resource of the information about the current situation in Russia. Covering events from the begining of the 90's to the 2003.
David is the only one persuasive person from the West, who really give a damn about ordinary Russians. And, by giving his attention, to ordinary, sometimes, maybe, too ordinary, but honest and simple people in Russia (which anyway represent 90-95% of population, in my opinion), he opens eyes to more global economical and political issues.
If you're interested in what is really going on in this country, buy this book. It will suit anyone, from ordinary Russians, who want to understand something, living in information vacuum mixed with corrupted government propaganda to the high fly foreign investor, who never visited Russia more far then the center of Moscow (Moscow does not represent Russia at all).
I hope, with David, that maybe this book will change something. At least it changed me.
Thank you, David, from the honest people of Russia.
David is the only one persuasive person from the West, who really give a damn about ordinary Russians. And, by giving his attention, to ordinary, sometimes, maybe, too ordinary, but honest and simple people in Russia (which anyway represent 90-95% of population, in my opinion), he opens eyes to more global economical and political issues.
If you're interested in what is really going on in this country, buy this book. It will suit anyone, from ordinary Russians, who want to understand something, living in information vacuum mixed with corrupted government propaganda to the high fly foreign investor, who never visited Russia more far then the center of Moscow (Moscow does not represent Russia at all).
I hope, with David, that maybe this book will change something. At least it changed me.
Thank you, David, from the honest people of Russia.
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
In spare and unemotional prose, page after page of this book lays bare the crimes of the bloodsuckers who have raped the old Soviet Union and reduced the citizens of the country to penury. The Western Press adulates these men, celebrating their ability to buy football clubs or huge houses in London, when it should be damning them for their unbelievable greed, heartlessness and rapacity.
Satter's book is one of the best and easiest to read of all the accounts that detail the economic crimes that the oligarchs participated in -- and detail them it does in complete and clear prose.
Having visited Russia and seen some of the consequences of what Satter describes, and had frequent contact with many Russians in a professional capacity I was very impressed with this account for its clarity, even-handedness, lack of sensationalism and diligence in getting to the root of individual events. In short,this book answers many of the questions that an alert visitor to the counrty will ask himself and explains much about the attitude of contemporary Russians to both their own society and to the West.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Overall one of the best books out there regarding the Russian criminal state, however, as it starts by detailing the Kursk submarine disaster you start asking yourself "where is this going". Throughout the book there are some brilliant snippets of information but is does not flow as well as it should and the conclusion is the weakest part. Failings aside, it is well written and captivating.
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