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Title: Russian Mafia in America: Immigration, Culture, and Crime by James O. Finckenauer, Elin J. Waring ISBN: 1555535089 Publisher: Northeastern University Press Pub. Date: November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.67
Rating: 5
Summary: GREAT
Comment: Anything that exposes criminal elements in our society is worth reading and analyzing. The Russian Mafia, however, with its' fierce reputation throughout the world and dabblings in everything from prostitution, gambling, stolen merchandise, and even rumored nuclear technology, is not to be feared. This book exposes the Russian Mafia in America and how they are controlling whatever they touch and goes into great detail in examining the illegal immigration and citizenship schemes,
overseen, yes, by the Russian Mafia. Personally, I believe the Russian Mafia has weaknesses in organization, structure, and even leadership which will eventually weaken these Siberian slugs to a hard downfall. Further, from reading this book, I think the Russkies are enjoying capitalism just a little too much.
Rating: 1
Summary: Authors' basic assertion has been shown to be absurd
Comment: Given the information now pouring out of Russia, including Vladimir Putin's attempts to handle kleptocrats in his country, and the existence of deep and broad interconnections and money transfers with their U.S. counterparts (think e.g. global prostitution), the assertions made in this work seem surreal. The dense and pedantic narrative seems almost to be designed to hide the fact that the content offers no insight into the topic.
Read Red Mafiya. It is more anecdotal, but the brave (late) Robert Friedman clearly got up from his desk to do some fact-finding.
Rating: 2
Summary: Too scholarly. Skip unless using for a sociology paper.
Comment: I found this quite well-researched book too clinical for a juicy subject of the organized crime. More than anything it is a consolidation of previous works of journalists and investigators presented in a tone of a laboratory study. Few interesting historical backgrounds in each chapter are outweighed by bland data analysis that seems endless, and in this respect the book, in my opinion, is of low literary value to the general public. Spare yourself time and money and look for authors who interview the subjects firsthand, such as C. Freeland, P Klebnikov, R. Freedman, etc.
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Title: Comrade Criminal: Russia's New Mafiya by Stephen Handelman ISBN: 0300063865 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.22 |
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Title: Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America by Robert I. Friedman ISBN: 0316294748 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Oligarchs: Wealth & Power in the New Russia by David E. Hoffman, David Hoffman ISBN: 1586480014 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 19 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: The Russian Mafia: Private Protection in a New Market Economy by Federico Varese ISBN: 019829736X Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Godfather of the Kremlin: the Life and Times of Boris Berezovsky by Paul Klebnikov ISBN: 0151006210 Publisher: Harcourt Paperbacks Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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