Wheel of fortune
Subtitle: the battle for oil and power in Russia
By: Thane Gustafson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674066472
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Petroleum industry and trade; Government policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The breakup: the Soviet oil industry disintegrates; title: Riding chaos: the battle for ownership, money, and power; title: The birth of the Russian majors: Lukoil, Surgut, and Yukos; title: Worlds in collision: the foreigners arrive in Russia; title: The Russian "oil miracle", 1999 - 2004; title: The brothers from Saint Petersburg: the origins of Putin's state capitalism; title: "Chudo" meets "Russian bear": the Yukos affair; title: Russia's accidental oil champion: the rise of Rosneft; title: Krizis: the rude reawakening of 2008 - 2009 and the Russian oil tax dilemma; title: Strong thumbs, weak fingers: how the state regulates the oil industry; title: The half-raised curtain: the foreign companies as agents of change; title: The coming crisis of oil rents; title: Oil and the future of Russia.