Volume 47, Number 16 · October 19, 2000
Mr. Bigsky
By Robert Cottrell
Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of Russia
by Paul Klebnikov
Harcourt, 400 pp., $28.00
Sale of the Century: Russia's Wild Ride from Communism to Capitalism
by Chrystia Freeland
Crown Business, 389 pp., $27.50
After observing Boris Berezovsky in Moscow for several years and meeting him once or twice, I found I rather liked him. And I suspect from the fascinated tone of his book that Paul Klebnikov does too, notwithstanding the part he considers his subject to have played in hijacking the government of Russia over the past ten years, wrecking its industry, poisoning its public morals, and so on.
Review, 3931 words
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