Based on over 130 interviews with criminals, law enforcement officials and government representatives from post-Soviet Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, this boo
This book aims to understand the “texture” of the post-Soviet region, where waves of de-integration and re-integration have been resonating at different tim
The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the Soviet-era gulags to become Russia’s international criminal class. Mark Galeotti is t
Unlike much of the existing literature on organised crime, this book is less focused on the problem per se as it is on understanding its implications. The latte