Casino Moscow
A Tale of Greed and Adventure on Capitalism's Wildest Frontier
Brzezinski, Matthew
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
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.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0684869772
Copyright: 2002
Dewey Decimal: 330
Book Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 29
Paper Weight (lb): 0.65
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