Dimensions
140 x 216 x 19mm
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 civilisation, 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.
