Matthew Brzezinski

Casino Moscow: A Tale of Greed and Adventure on Capitalism's Wildest Frontier

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

After awakening from its long communist slumber, Russia in the 1990s was a place where everything and everyone was for sale, and fortunes could be made and lost overnight. Into this free-market maelstrom stepped rookie "Wall Street Journal" reporter Matthew Brzezinski, who was immediately pulled into the mad world of Russian capitalism -- where corrupt bankers and fast-talking American carpetbaggers presided over the biggest boom and bust in financial history. Brzezinski's adventures take him from the solid-gold bathroom fixtures of Moscow's elite, to the last stop on the Trans-Siberian railway, where poverty-stricken citizens must buy water by the pail from the local crime lord, and back to civilization, to stumble into a drunken birthday bash for an ultra-nationalist politico. It's an irreverent, lurid, and hilarious account of one man's tumultuous trek through a capitalist market gone haywire -- and a nation whose uncertain future is marked by boundless hope and foreboding despair.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: FREE PR
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9780684869773
• ISBN-10: 0684869772
• Artikelnr.: 21574328

Autorenporträt

Matthew Brzezinski

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contenets
Prologue
1 To Moscow
2 Baggage
3 Renaissance
4 Wedded to Reform
5 Russian Roulette
6 The Eleven Billion Dollar Woman and Her Friend the Prime Minister
7 The Big Cucumber
8 Big Lies and Black Gold
9 You Can't Act Like Americans Here
10 Gena and the Game
11 Bear Market
12 Back in the USSR
13 Death and Taxes
Epilogue