Oilopoly: Putin, Power and the Rise of the New Russia - Softcover

A gripping, highly topical, and important book - and what a rattling good read! --Richard Sakwa, Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs

A superb, readable description of Vladimir Putin's role in the emergence of Russia as a successful and potentially threatening petrostate. --James R. Millar, Professor of Economics and International Affairs, George Washington University

Written in an engaging, lively, and accessible style, Oilopoly vividly outlines the importance of the Russian oil and gas industry. It masters the complex development of the history of Russian energy policy and compellingly relates it to Putin's political ambitions. --David Lane, editor of and contributor to The Political Economy of Russian Oil

Russia's spectacular recovery and reassertion of its superpower status is nothing short of an economic and political miracle. Marshall Goldman, one of the world's leading authorities on Russia, uncovers a gripping tale of intrigue, corruption, greed, patronage, nepotism, and oligarchy as Russian oil and gas drive its economy and reignite its traditional great power ambitions. Based on extensive research, including several interviews with Vladimir Putin, this dramatic page-turner is the incredible story of one country's unprecedented, meteoric return to the world stage.