Russian Mafia - Varese, Federico (Prize Research Fellow, Prize Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford, and Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, Yale University)

What is the Russian Mafia? Drawing on reports from undercover police operations, documents from the Gulag archives, and in-depth interviews conducted over several years with vicitms of the mafia, criminals, and officials, this unique book provides compelling answers to the question, and challenges many widely-held views.