David Hoffman

The Oligarchs

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Hailed as “the most dramatic and comprehensive account” of the early years of Russian capitalism
New York Times Book Review

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  • Bas Grasmayerhas quoted11 years ago
    When jeans arrived in the 1970s, Irina remembered how her generation went crazy. Clothes were important because as poor as they were, it was the only thing that differentiated them from each other. People would deny themselves food to buy something flashy or extravagant. They knew they could never afford to move to another apartment, but they could buy something to stand out in a crowd.
  • Alexander Revinskyhas quoted9 years ago
    In the months before the final collapse, Yeltsin had begun to assemble a parallel regime that would take the radical economic measures Gorbachev had never made.
  • Alexander Revinskyhas quoted9 years ago
    THE REVOLUTIONARIES were young men in their thirties, selfconfident, hopeful, untested in power, and confronted with a task far beyond their imagination or practical experience.

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