Darkness at Dawn – The Rise of the Russian Criminal State - Hardcover

Satter, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300098928 ISBN 13: 9780300098921

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Anticipating a new dawn of freedom and democracy after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russians could hardly have foreseen the reality of their future a decade later: a country desperately impoverished and controlled at every level by criminals. This is the story of the 1990s reform period in Russia through the experiences of individual citizens. Recounting in detail the development of a new era of oppression, journalist David Satter conveys the staggering nature of the changes that have swept Russian life, society and ways of thinking. Through the stories of people at all levels of Russian society, Satter describes fraudulent investment schemes, massive corruption, and the intrusion of organized crime everywhere. With insights derived from more than 20 years of writing and reporting on Russia, Satter considers why the individual human being there has historically counted for so little. He also offers an analysis of how Russia's post-Soviet fate was decided when a new morality failed to fill the vast moral vacuum that communism left in its wake.

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About the Author

David Satter, a Moscow correspondent for major newspapers for many years, is now senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He is the author of Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union (ISBN 0 300 08705 5, [pound]12.95* pb.), also published by Yale University Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300098928
• ISBN 13: 9780300098921
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352