Table of Contents

Preface. Notes on the Contributors. 1. Introduction: Economic Crime in the New Russian Economy; A. Ledeneva. 2. Crime in the Context of Transition to a Market Economy; L. Fituni. 3. The Russian Mafia: Economic Penetration at Home and Abroad; M. Galeotti. 4. Organized Violence, Market Building, and State Formation in Post-Communist Russia; V. Volkov. 5. Corruption and Violence in Russian Business in Late 1990s; V. Radaev. 6. The Transformation of the Second Economy into the Informal Economy; M. Kurkchiyan. 7. Pervasive Corruption; F. Varese. 8. Victims or Accomplices? Extortion and Bribery in Eastern Europe; W. Miller, et al. 9. The Embeddedness of Tax Evasion in Russia; E. Busse. 10. `Everyday Crime' at the Workplace: Covert Earning Schemes in Russia's New Commercial Sector; K. Birdsall. 11. Russian Hackers and Virtual Crime; A. Ledeneva. 12. Dirty Business, `Normal Life' and the Dream of Law; C. Humphrey. 13. Large-scale Corruption and Rent-seeking in the Russian Banking Sector; H. Pleines. 14. Illegal Aspects of Transborder Capital Flows from the Former Soviet Union; L. Fituni. 15. Russia: Multiple Financial System and Implications for Economic Crime; V. Chorniy. 16. Money Laundering Control and the Rule of Law in Russia; F. Dahan. 17. The Hyperbola of Russian Crime and the Police Culture; J. Backmann. 18. The Development of Appropriate Responses to Organized Crime in Post-Communist Societies, W. Tupman. Index.