Author: VITALIEV, VITALI
Title: Special Correspondent - Investigating in the Soviet Union
Description: London, Hutchinson. 1990, First Edition. (ISBN: 0091742978). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Vitaliev has travelled all over the country following up leads - a special correspondent, indeed, and this, his first book published outside the Soviet Union, reads like a novel of true crime and scandal : the prostitutes who 'officially' do not exist; the Godfather-like Mafia that boomed in the stagnation years of Brezhnev; the racketeering Boys from Amur, whose criminal workings lead Vitali into court and hiding from death threats; and perhaps most horrifying, the sudden rise of the Leningrad Nazis. Written with his customary humour and infectious wit. 16. Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: Investigative Journalism, Russia, Russian Mafia, Leningrad Nazis 0091742978


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