Organized Crime, Political Transitions and State Formation in Post-Soviet Eurasia [electronic resource] /
Kupatadze, A.author.
Based on over 130 interviews with criminals, law enforcement officials and government representatives from post-Soviet Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, this book situates organized crime in the debate on state formation and examines the diverging patterns in organized crime following the aftermath of these countries' Coloured Revolutions.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of charts and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Political-criminal nexus and patterns of dominance -- Impact of Soviet and post-Soviet organized crime -- Ukraine : privatisation and re-privatisation : from shadowy takeovers to corporate raiding -- Georgia : extortion : from professional criminals to the "revolutionary government" -- Kyrgyzstan : drug trafficking : from sportsmeny and ugalovniki to police and elites -- The coloured revolutions and their consequences -- Organized crime, transitions, and state formation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Based on over 130 interviews with criminals, law enforcement officials and government representatives from post-Soviet Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, this book situates organized crime in the debate on state formation and examines the diverging patterns in organized crime following the aftermath of these countries' Coloured Revolutions.
Crime—Sociological aspects.
Political sociology.
Organized crime.
Political science.
Political communication.
Criminology.
Crime and Society.
Political Sociology.
Organized Crime.
Political Science.
Political Communication.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.