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After awakening from its long communist slumber, Russia in the 1990s was a place where everything and everyone was for sale, and fortunes could be made and lost overnight. Into this free-market maelstrom stepped rookie "Wall Street Journal" reporter Matthew Brzezinski, who was immediately pulled into the mad world of Russian capitalism -- where corrupt bankers and fast-talking American carpetbaggers presided over the biggest boom and bust in financial history. Brzezinski's adventures take him from the solid-gold bathroom fixtures of Moscow's elite, to the last stop on the Trans-Siberian railway, where poverty-stricken citizens must buy water by the pail from the local crime lord, and back to civilization, to stumble into a drunken birthday bash for an ultra-nationalist politico. It's an irreverent, lurid, and hilarious account of one man's tumultuous trek through a capitalist market gone haywire -- and a nation whose uncertain future is marked by boundless hope and foreboding despair.

Book details

• Full title: Casino Moscow
• Subtitle: A Tale of Greed and Adventure on Capitalism's Wildest Frontier
• Author: Matthew Brzezinski
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 29
• EAN: 9780684869773
• ISBN: 0684869772
• ID: 11011194
• Publisher: Free Pr
• Weight: 294 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. July 2002

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