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Ursprungligen postat av
Gothus
Erik Pensers, Thomas Fischers, Carnegie var till exempel det första svenska företaget att ta marknadsandelar i forna Sovjet. Baltikum.
För att inte tala om Data General med Göran Printz.
De gav sig tidigt in i ryska maffians "Mecka", Prem.
Förlåt, Perm ska det naturligtvis vara.
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"WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Nov. 8, 2002 — Although secrecy has traditionally surrounded the mafia, and few outsiders have been able to penetrate its tight-knit groups, a new book by Federico Varese, assistant professor of sociology at Williams College, goes a long way in figuring out the Russian mafia.
Focusing on the city of Perm, where Varese spent months conducting interviews, researching in local newspapers, and studying police records, his book, “The Russian Mafia,” presents a systematic investigation of the organization. He details the role and the economic impact of the mafia on the local economy, the structure of Mafia groups, and their norms of behavior.
Varese links Perm criminals to a wider, national network of ‘vory-v-zakone,’ the Russian equivalent of bosses. Drawing on never-disclosed-before Soviet documents, the book also traces the links between Soviet and post-Soviet criminality.
John le Carré has called the book “enlightening, perceptive, and superbly researched. Essential reading for anybody seriously interested in the mind and heart of contemporary Russian criminal society.”
Varese’s research is based on the early 1990s, when Russia was coping with its economic transition from centralized Soviet rule to a free market.
“The transition from Soviet planning to the market economy has often been considered solely as an economic problem,” writes Varese in the introduction. “Little attention has been paid to the institutions that make a market economy work: a system of clearly defined property rights, a swift and effective court system, and a credible police force that deters crimes.”
Comparing Russia’s transition to the better-understood economic evolution of Sicily, Varese explains, “At the time of the transition to the market, property rights may be badly defined by the state and that protection may not undergo centralization and end up in the hands of the state. Other forms of protection may emerge, especially in the face of an inefficient state and in the presence of people trained in the use of violence who have, as a result of the transition, found themselves without employment.”
“The Russian Mafia” will be awarded the Ed A. Hewett Book Prize in late November. The award is given annually by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, in conjunction with the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research. The prize is awarded for an outstanding publication on the political economy of the centrally planned economies of the former Soviet Union and East Central Europe and their transitional successors. The citation calls Varese’s analysis “an innovative blend of theory and facts drawn from unusual data sources, such as in-depth interviews with actual participants.”
Varese is an expert on organized crime and Soviet criminal history. A native Italian, he graduated from Bologna University before going to Cambridge University, where he completed an M.Phil. in 1991 in social and political theory. He received his D.Phil. in sociology from Oxford University in 1997. He held a Nuffield College Research Fellowship from 1998 to 2000 and the William H. Orrick Visiting Professorship at Yale University from 2000 to 2002.
Varese has been published widely in both Italian and English language publications. “Russian Mafia” is his first book.
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