Putin and the Oligarch: The Khodorkovsky-Yukos Affair Contributor(s): Sakwa, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 1780764596 ISBN-13: 9781780764597 Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company OUR PRICE: $57.95 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - General - Political Science | World - Russian & Former Soviet Union - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union |
Dewey: 947.086 |
LCCN: 2013456901 |
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.4" W x 9" (1.30 lbs) 320 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the head of the Yukos oil company, on 25 October 2003, was a key turning point in modern Russian history. At that time Khodorkovsky was one of the world's richest and most powerful men, while Yukos had been transformed into a vast and lucrative oil company that was set to go global. On all counts, this looked like a success story, but it was precisely at this moment that the Russian authorities struck. After two controversial trials, attracting widespread international condemnation, Khodorkovsky was sentenced to fourteen years in jail. In this book, Richard Sakwa examines the rise and fall of Yukos, and the development of the Russian oil industry more generally. Sakwa analyses Russia's emergence as an energy superpower, and considers the question of the 'natural resource curse' and the use of energy rents to bolster Russia as a great power and to maintain the autonomy of the regime. Crucially this book also examines the relationship between Putin's state and big business during Russia's traumatic shift from the Soviet planned economy to the market system.It is a detailed analysis of one of the most dramatic confrontations between economic and political power in our era, full of human drama and moral dilemmas. |