Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Chapter 1. Veblen's Warning 1
5. Chapter 2. Violent Entrepreneurship 27
6. Chapter 3. The Violence-Managing Agency 64
7. Chapter 4. Bandits and Capitalists 97
8. Chapter 5. The Privatization of the Power Ministries 126
9. Chapter 6. The Politics of State Formation 155
10. Key to Interviews 193
11. Glossary of Russian Words and Phrases 195
12. Index 197