Gilles Favarel-Garrigues publishes « Policing Economic Crime in Russia: From Soviet Planned Economy to Privatization »
Policing Economic Crime in Russia: From Soviet Planned Economy to Privatization Gilles Favarel-Garrigues Columbia University Press, October 2011 Gilles Favarel-Garrigues explores the management of economic crime in Russia, from the time of Leonid Brezhnev to Boris Yeltsin, recasting the history of the « criminal problem » that has tainted Russian politics since the late 1980s. In the closing decades of the Soviet regime, shortages of goods and services precipitated a rapid increase in black market and underground practices, visible to all yet wholly illegal. [...]