Godfather of the Kremlin: Life and Times of Boris Berezovsky - Hardcover

Klebnikov, Paul

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ISBN 10: 0151006210 ISBN 13: 9780151006212

Verlag: Thomson Learning, 2000

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Book by Klebnikov Paul

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Chronicles the life of the head of one of Moscow's gangster families, who gained control of Russia's largest auto manufacturer, largest television network, and national airline and who also financed the re-election of Boris Yeltsin, to whom he was a key advisor. 100,000 first printing.

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Boris Berezovsky's business career has been meteoric. In just six years he managed to seize control of Russia's largest auto manufacturer, largest TV network, national airline, and one of the world's biggest oil companies. When Moscow's gangster families battled one another in the Great Mob War of 1993-1994, Berezovsky was in the thick of it. He was badly burned by a car bomb; his driver was decapitated. A year later, Berezovsky emerged as the prime suspect in the assassination of the director of the TV network he acquired. Although plagued by scandal, he enjoyed President Yeltsin's support, serving as the personal "financial advisor" to Yeltsin and his family. In 1996, Berezovsky organized the financing of Yeltsin's re-election campaign-a campaign marred by fraud, embezzlement, and attempted murder. Berezovsky became the president's most influential political advisor, playing a key role in forming governments and dismissing prime ministers. Having labored to privatize the economy, Berezovsky privatized the state. Based on hundreds of taped interviews with top businessmen and government officials, as well as on secret police reports, contractual documents, and surveillance tapes, Godfather of the Kremlin is both a gripping story and a unique historical document.

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• Verlag: Thomson Learning
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0151006210
• ISBN 13: 9780151006212
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352