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.

Described by Harpers & Queen as "a chic insider's guide for sophisticated travellers," these sleek, black city guides are aimed at the more discerning traveller looking to sidestep the usual tourist traps and penetrate the skin of each city.The Hedonist's Guide To series offers a definitive view of the finest restaurants, the most stylish hotels, the chicest bars, the best shopping, the most luxurious spas and the cultural highlights in each city. Individually tried and tested, every bar, restaurant, hotel, cafe and nightclub is accompanied by a photograph.

The most up-to-date directory for Moscow available. This will serve Western business people and independent travelers is the most current city guide to the ever-changing Moscow.

Fantasy City analyses the post-industrialist city as a site of entertainment. By discussing examples from a wide variety of venues, including casinos, malls, heritage developments and theme parks, Hannigan questions urban entertainments economic foundations and historical background. He asks whether such areas of fantasy destroy communities or instead create new groupings of shared identities and experiences. The book is written in a student friendly way with boxed case studies for class discussion.

It has been several years since the author, Willy Mitchell, was in East Africa and visited a bar in Malindi, Kenya. He overheard the rumblings of a coup-in-the-making without any idea that one day in the future, a similar plan would be hatched. Now, years later, Mitch’s daughter, Bella, has followed in her father’s footsteps where he served in the British Special Air Service, and joined the CIA, where she has transformed into a rising star. Russian villain Dimitri Dankov has already sought revenge after a failed assassination attempt. Bella and the team of Mitch, Mac, Bob, and Sam, with Colonel Collins and Lord Beecham, discover that the leading Mexican drug cartels have partnered with Russian dark forces to take over Equatorial Guinea in an attempt to win influence in Africa and transform the cartel’s dirty money into good. Bella and Mitch lead the charge against the dark forces hidden under the veil of Maskirovka. But what can they do to change this course of events? In this tale of intrigue, money laundering at the highest level, and corruption, a rising CIA star, her father, and their team find themselves drawn into a complex plot involving greedy oil executives, drug cartels, and the Russian underworld from taking over an oil-rich African nation.

An account of the Bolshevist concentration camps in the Solovetsi Islands.

Business and the State in Contemporary Russia is the most recent volume in the John M. Olin Critical Issues series, published by Westview in conjunction with Harvard's Davis Center for Russian Research. In this latest installation, contributors discuss issues as far-ranging as the dynamics of rule in contemporary Russia, the banking elite, the politics of the Russian media business, the political economy of the Russian oil and coal industries, and the causes and consequences of the August 1998 crash.