Goldman M.I. The Piratization of Russia. Russian Reform Goes Awry

London: Routledge, 2003. — 296 p.Russia's financial buccaneers: the wild and woolly East.
Setting the stage: the Russian economy in the post-communist era.
The legacy of the czarist era: untenable and unsavory roots.
It's broke, so fix it: the Stalinist and Gorbachev legacies.
Privatization: good intentions, but the wrong advice at the wrong time.
The nomenklatura oligarchs.
The upstart oligarchs.
FIMACO, the Russian Central Bank, and money laundering at the highest level.
Corruption, crime, and the Russian Mafia.
Who says there was no better way?
Confidence or con game: what will it take?