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Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Letter from Publisher to Stephen Bryen (former Department of Defense official) laid in. 239 p. : Tables. Personaliities. Author's Biography. Index. Never before has there been an attempt to transform a massive state-owned economy into a dynamic free market system. The story of the conversion of the dinosaur Marxist Soviet state into the free-wheeling capitalist society of today's Russian Federation is one of the most compelling dramas in history. This tale includes violence, corruption, and a web of political conspiracy. It is a true-life economic-political thriller. Who are the new Russian financial magnates who are grabbing former state property? What were the terms for disposing of the state's immense wealth to private investors? What was the role of American financiers? These questions, and more, are answered here. In addition to what he saw with his own eyes (in the crucial period between 1992 and 1997), Kokh also paints vivid pictures of the influential decision-makers that he worked closely with, including Anatoly Chubais, the little known Kremlin kingpin who ran Boris Yeltsin's re-election campaign and served as both Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister. Kokh uses his expert knowledge of the Russian government to bring readers into the momentous meetings that changed the world, including his cogent analysis of events occurring in Russia at the present time. Stephen D. Bryen is a longtime Washington insider. He is president of the defense contractor Finmeccanica, Inc., which is the U.S. branch of the Italian arms maker that maintains close ties to many Republican Party elites. Bryen is also closely connected to various high-profile neoconservatives like Richard Perle, under whom Bryen served when Perle was President Ronald Reagan's assistant secretary of defense, and has supported the work of a number of hardline pro-Israel groups like the Center for Security Policy (CSP) and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA). In the mid-1970s, Bryen and a group of other mainly neoconservative figures, including Michael Ledeen, helped establish JINSA as an important Washington-based think tank specializing in fostering close ties between the U.S. and Israeli militaries. Today, JINSA is a central component of a burgeoning group of U.S. think tanks that pursue a Likud Party-line on Mideast peace and lobby to sustain a strategic relationship between the United States and Israel (for more, see John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, " Faculty Research Working Paper, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, March 2006). According to some accounts, Bryen and his wife Shoshana were instrumental in turning JINSA into an important gateway connecting the U.S. military, defense contractors, and Washington elites into a formidable element of the so-called Israel Lobby. Journalist Mark Milstein writes that under Bryen, JINSA became by 1979 "fully operational, " shedding its earlier incarnation as a mere study group aimed at learning the lessons of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which included ensuring the that United States would aid Israel in a conflict. When Bryen left JINSA in the early 1980s to take a post in the Reagan administration, his wife took over as head of the group. Milstein reports: "While JINSA's early years can be described as low-level but intensive networking efforts, the decade under Shoshana Bryen is described by many observers as the time when the mouse finally learned to roar. With Bryen at the helm, JINSA sent out the likes of former AIPAC [American Israel Public Affairs Committee] executive director Morris J. Amitay, now a lobbyist and director of the rightist pro-Israel Washington PAC, attracted well-known military commentators like Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, and produced influential papers such as those that many credit for keeping the joint U.S. -Israeli Arrow missile project afloat" (Mark Milstein, "Strategic Ties or Tentacles? " Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, October 1991). At the Pentagon, in the...
