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Table of contents :
Violent Entrepreneurs
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Veblen's Warning
Chapter 2. Violent Entrepreneurship
Chapter 3. The Violence-Managing Agency
Chapter 4. Bandits and Capitalists
Chapter 5. The Privatization of the Power Ministries
Chapter 6. The Politics of State Formation
Key to Interviews
Glossary
Index

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Violent Entrepreneurs

Violent Entrepreneurs The Use of Force in the Making of Russian Capitalism

VADIM VOLKOV

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Ithaca and London

Copyright © 2002 by Cornell Universiry All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell Universiry Press, Sage House, 5 1 2 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 1 4850. First published 2002 by Cornell Universiry Press First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2002 Printed in the United States of America

Library ofCongms Cataloging-in-Publication Data Volkov, Vadim, 1 965V iolent entrepreneurs: the use of force in the making of Russian

capitalism / Vadim Volkov.

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Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-4016-8 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN-IO: 0-8014-4016-5 (cloth: alk. paper) I SBN-13: 978-0-8014-8778-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)

ISBN-IO: 0-8014-8778-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) I. Organized crime-Russia (Federation) (Federation)

2. Capitalism-Russia

3. Law enforcement-Russia (Federation)

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4. Russia

5. Russia (Federation)-Politics

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