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Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State Paperback – 22 Oct. 2004

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Anticipating a new dawn of freedom after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russians could hardly have foreseen the reality of their future a decade later: a country impoverished and controlled at every level by organized crime. This riveting book views the 1990s reform period through the experiences of individual citizens, revealing the changes that have swept Russia and their effect on Russia’s age-old ways of thinking.

“The Russia that Satter depicts in this brave, engaging book cannot be ignored. Darkness at Dawn should be required reading for anyone interested in the post-Soviet state.”―Christian Caryl, Newsweek

“Satter must be commended for saying what a great many people only dare to think.”―Matthew Brzezinski, Toronto Globe and Mail

“Humane and articulate.”―Raymond Asquith, Spectator

“Vivid, impeccably researched and truly frightening. . . . Western policy-makers, especially in Washington, would do well to study these pages.”―Martin Sieff, United Press International

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0300105916
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978-0300105919
Publisher

Yale University Press
Publication date

22 Oct. 2004
Language

English
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23.32 x 16.15 x 2.29 cm
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336 pages
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"A stunning book that honestly confronts the continuingly difficult birth of post-Soviet Russia: dictatorship, economic collapse, and depopulation may still be in Russia's future and much depends on oil. Bravo to Satter--a clear, troubling, brave work."--Jim Woolsey, former CIA Director

"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

About the Author

David Satter, former Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times of London, is affiliated with the Hoover Institution, the Hudson Institute, and the Johns Hopkins University Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He is the author of Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union, alsoavailable from Yale University Press.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Yale University Press (22 Oct. 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0300105916
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0300105919
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 23.32 x 16.15 x 2.29 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 238,189 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 407 in European Governments & Politics
- 854 in History of Russia
- 903 in Organised Crime Biographies

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David Satter is one of the world’s leading commentators on Russia and the former Soviet Union. He is the author of four books on Russia and the creator of a documentary film on the fall of the U.S.S.R. In May, 2013, he became an adviser to the Russian Service of Radio Liberty and in September, 2013, he was accredited as a Radio Liberty correspondent in Moscow. Three months later, he was expelled from Russia becoming the first U.S. correspondent to be expelled since the Cold War.

David Satter is a fellow of the Foreign Policy Institute at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a senior fellow of the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. He is also a senior fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia and an associate of the Henry Jackson Society in London. He has been a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He teaches a course on Russian politics and history at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced Academic Programs and has been a visiting professor at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and a visiting fellow in journalism at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan.

David Satter’s first book was Age of Delirium: the Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union, which was published in 1996. He later made a documentary film on the basis of this book which won the 2013 Van Gogh Grand Jury Prize at the Amsterdam Film Festival. In addition, David Satter has written three other books about Russia, Darkness at Dawn: the Rise of the Russian Criminal State (2003), It Was a Long Time Ago and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past (2011), and The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep: Russia’s Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin. His books have been translated into eight languages.

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tom

Lots of interesting stories

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 July 2017

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Good read, would have enjoyed more analysis of the Russian apartment bombings

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 July 2013

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This book is very well written & even the unsophisticated person like me, with very little knowledge of the subject, can follow it & understand it. I feel a sense of despair as I read the book.The poor, down-trodden, ordinary Russian citizen doesn't stand a chance against the criminality of the new masters. There is no justice, no law to protect the ordinary Russian, but the criminals have made fortunes. What I find hard to comprehend is the lack of compassion for the ordinary Russian shown by the Mafia & the government. What has happened to morality? I do not see an easy solution to the problems in Russia.

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Mike Alexander

Reality

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 November 2020

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The nature of the rise of Russian oligarchs.

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Tod Shopov

A revelation, albeit an awful one.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 May 2016

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Very insightful book.
I was truly horrified by the well illustrated moral depravity of the Russian ruling class.

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P. Reilly

Excellent overview, but doesn't meet expectations

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 April 2007

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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Thank you, David. Thank you from honest citizen of Russia.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 October 2003

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.

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Barton Keyes

Chilling account of economic rape

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 June 2004

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.

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