Casino Moscow

von Matthew Brzezinski

320 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: No Series
• Themen: Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Finanzen, Betriebswirtschaft und Management Betriebswirtschaft und Management Unternehmensethik und soziale Verantwortung, CSR
• ISBN: 9780684869773
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 09.07.2002
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Free Press