"Financial internationalization of Russia's economy since 1991, which was deeply entangled with competition for control over the vestiges of the Soviet industrial empire in an environment of insecure property rights, allowed domestic elites to legitimize their new wealth without improving domestic rule of law institutions"-- Provided by publisher.

Local Control and Global Access -- Episode 1 : Dividing the Debris of the Soviet Colossus, 1987-94 -- Episode 2 : The Oligarchs Embrace Openness, 1995-98 -- Episode 3 : State Capitalism Goes Global,1999-2008 -- Coda : Financial Openness as a Mainstay of Kleptocratic Capitalism, 2009-2020 -- Conclusion : Western Finance and Russian Politics.