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Russia's Oil Barons and Metal Magnates by Stephen Fortescue
  • Russia's Oil Barons and Metal Magnates

  • Oligarchs and the State in Transition

  • by Stephen Fortescue
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    • Product code: 273082
    • ISBN: 1403986177, ISBN13: 9781403986177, 240 pages, hardback
      Published by Palgrave MacMillan on 2006
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    Description of Russia's Oil Barons and Metal Magnates

    Russian politics has been dominated over the last decade by the relationship between the oligarchs and the state. The existing literature is damning of the oligarchs on two grounds: they won their wealth and power corruptly, and rapaciously stripped the assets they had so dubiously obtained. "Russia's Oil Barons and Metal Magnates" contains a critical analysis of each of the claims made against them. In doing so, it presents a detailed analysis of the place of the oligarchs in both the metals sector and in the Russian political economy.

    About Stephen Fortescue

    STEPHEN FORTESCUE is Associate Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations, University of New South Wales, Australia. He completed a PhD on Soviet primary party organizations at the Australian National University in 1977. After a number of years working in Soviet-related business he returned to academia, with research appointments at the ANU and the University of Birmingham. His primary research interest then was Soviet science, with monographs being published by Macmillan (1986) and Routledge (1990). Since returning to Australia, to an appointment at the University of New

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