{"product_id":"putin-and-the-oligarch-the-khodorkovskyyukos-affair-9781780764597","title":"Putin and the Oligarch: The Khodorkovsky-Yukos Affair","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky  the head of the Yukos oil company  on 25 October 2003  was a key turning point in modern Russian history. At that time Khodorkovsky was one of the worlds richest and most powerful men  while Yukos had been transformed into a vast and lucrative oil company that was set to go global. On all counts  this looked like a success story  but it was precisely at this moment that the Russian authorities struck. After two controversial trials  attracting widespread international condemnation  Khodorkovsky was sentenced to fourteen years in jail. In this book  Richard Sakwa examines the rise and fall of Yukos  and the development of the Russian oil industry more generally. Sakwa analyses Russias emergence as an energy superpower  and considers the question of the natural resource curse and the use of energy rents to bolster Russia as a great power and to maintain the autonomy of the regime. Crucially this book also examines the relationship between Putins state and big business during Russias traumatic shift from the Soviet planned economy to the market system.It is a detailed analysis of one of the most dramatic confrontations between economic and political power in our era  full of human drama and moral dilemmas. It is also a study of political economy  with the market and state coming into confrontation. Above all  the Yukos affair continues to shape contemporary Russian politics  with a weakened judiciary and insecure property rights. It traces the struggles of the Putin era as two visions of society came into conflict. The attack on Khodorkovsky had - and continues to have - far-reaching political and economic consequences but it also raises fundamental questions about the quality of freedom in Putins Russia as well as in the world at large.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647062138933,"sku":"ByrdShop_1780764596","price":43.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781780764597.jpg?v=1781687254","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/putin-and-the-oligarch-the-khodorkovskyyukos-affair-9781780764597","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}