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The Oligarchs: Wealth And Power In The New Russia Paperback – Illustrated, Sept. 13 2011
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- Print length608 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPublicAffairs
- Publication dateSept. 13 2011
- Dimensions13.97 x 3.86 x 20.96 cm
- ISBN-109781610390705
- ISBN-13978-1610390705
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- ASIN : 1610390709
- Publisher : PublicAffairs; Revised edition (Sept. 13 2011)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 608 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9781610390705
- ISBN-13 : 978-1610390705
- Item weight : 640 g
- Dimensions : 13.97 x 3.86 x 20.96 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: #178,953 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #140 in Free Enterprise Economics
- #140 in Free Enterprise (Books)
- #218 in International Economic Conditions (Books)
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David E. Hoffman is Contributing Editor at the Washington Post and a member of the Editorial board. In 1982, he joined The Washington Post to cover Presidents Reagan and Bush. Later, he was diplomatic correspondent, then served as Jerusalem correspondent, covering the Oslo peace accords. From 1995 to 2001, he served as Moscow bureau chief. On returning to Washington in 2001, he was Foreign editor and then Assistant Managing Editor for Foreign news. He has been a correspondent for the FRONTLINE documentaries "Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria" (2013), "The Trouble With Antibiotics" (2014) and "The Trouble with Chicken" (2015) and a reporter for “Putin’s Revenge,” (2017).
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But then after 7 or 8 chapters, each one detailing a particular Oligarch, it just became monotonous. I guess I expected more detail on their current wealthy life-styles?......
so I hate to admit it, but I abandoned the book half-way through. Life is too short, and there are too many really good books to be read, to bother struggling through books that no longer give pleasure or inspiration.
I think the author did lots of good research. It’s well written. But the monotony of a chapter of how each Oligarch made his wealth began to read like a text book. I do think the author explained at the beginning that this is how he would approach the topic, and promised that the later chapters would move onto another approach. But to be honest, I couldn’t be bothered. Have moved on to another book........


The real strength of the book is a conveying of how it actually felt in Russia at that time (the abuses and the corruption); the simple but major errors made (such as the refusal to see the rouble was heading for a dramatic devaluation) and the government's (both centrally and via different agencies and state banks) naivete in letting a small elite continually profit at the expense of the majority.
While the book is rapidly being taken over by recent events under Putin with the recent imprisonment in 2003 of Khodorovsky who was one of the few survivors by the end of this book, hopefully the writer will attempt a sequel in bringing this masterpiece fully up to date.

