The Oligarchs
Subtitle: Wealth & Power in the New Russia
Edition: 1ST edition
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: February 19, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 567
ISBN-13: 9781586480011
Subjects: Economic Conditions; Other Miscellaneous Crimes; Businesspeople; Soviet Union; Contemporary Economic Situations And Conditions; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Government & Business; Business/Economics; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Business & Management; Current Events; History; Russia (Federation); 1985-1991; 1991-; Business people
First sentence: IN THE SUMMER HEAT, the glass facade of Kursky Station loomed above the sweaty crowds.
Description: "In all of Moscow, few vantage points are as spectacular as Sparrow Hill, a forested, sloping rise perched above the Moscow River where it makes a lazy turn toward the Kremlin. One evening in September 1994, a group of wealthy Russian businessmen gathered in secret at a villa at the crest of the hill, overlooking the river. They began a conversation that would change Russia forever.".

"This book is a chronicle of six men who helped lead Russia in one of the grandest, most arduous experiments ever attempted: to transform a vast country, in the grip of failed socialism, into an economy of free market capitalism.

The six are Boris Berezovsky, a risk-taking powerbroker; Vladimir Gusinsky, an ambitious media magnate; Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a fiercely-determined oil baron; Alexander Smolensky, an earthy banker; Anatoly Chubais, a steely economic reformer; and Yuri Luzhkov, the powerful Mayor of Moscow."--BOOK JACKET.