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Putin and the Oligarch: The Khodorkovsky-Yukos Affair

By Richard Sakwa

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury UK
ISBN
1780764596, 978-1780764597
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
7 MB (7359256 bytes)
Edition
Original retail
Pages
288\0
Topic
History
Time added
2019-07-07 13:08:15
Russian History > Russian & Former Soviet Union Po

Description

The arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the head of the Yukos oil company, in October 2003, was a key turning point in modern Russian history. From being one of the world's richest and most powerful men, Khodorkovsky became Putin's prisoner. 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 considers the relationship between Putin's state and big business during Russia's traumatic shift from the Soviet planned economy to capitalism, as well as Russia's emergence as an energy superpower. The attack on Khodorkovsky had - and continues to have - far-reaching political and economic consequences but it also raises fundamental questions about the quality of freedom in Putin's Russia as well as in the world at large.

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