Acknowledgements

Series Preface

Introduction

PART I CRIMINAL FOUNDATIONS

`Criminal Russia: The Traditions Behind the Headlines', History Today, pp. 12-14

Mark Galeotti

`The Society of the Vory-v-Zakone, 1930s-1950s', Cahiers du Monde russe, 39, pp. 515-38

Federico Varese

```Thieves'' in the USSR - A Social Phenomenon', Survey, 22, pp. 141-56

Yuri Glazov

`Corruption in the Soviet System', Problems of Communism, 21, pp. 40-47

Steven J. Staats

`The Cultural Bases of Soviet Georgia's Second Economy', Soviet Studies, XXXV, pp. 546-60

Gerald Mars

Yochanan Altman

PART II WHAT IS THE MAFIYA?

`Crime in the Soviet Union: Early Glimpses of the True Story', British Journal of Criminology, 32, pp. 144-59

W.E. Butler

`Thieves Professing the Code: The Traditional Role of Vory v Zakone in Russia's Criminal World and Adaptations to a New Social Reality', Low Intensity Conflict & Law Enforcement, 4, pp. 72-88

Joseph D. Serio

Vyacheslav Razinkin

`The Russian ``Mafiya''', Foreign Affairs, 73, pp. 83-96

Stephen Handelman

`Primitive Capitalist Accumulation: Russia as a Racket', Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 11, pp. 257-75

Robert J. Kelly

Rufus Schatzberg

Patrick J. Ryan

`Russian Organized Crime: Its History, Structure and Function', Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 11, pp. 213-43

Joseph L. Albini

R.E. Rogers

Victor Shabalin

Valery Kutushev

Vladimir Moiseev

Julie Anderson

`Is Sicily the Future of Russia? Private Protection and the Rise of the Russian Mafia', Archives europeenes de sociologie, XXXV. pp. 224-58

Federico Varese

PART III ASSESSMENTS

`Organized Crime in the West and in the Former USSR: An Attempted Comparison', International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 37, pp. 5-15

Alexander S. Nikiforov

`Post-Soviet Organized Crime: Implications for Economic, Social and Political Development', Demokratizatsiya, 2, pp. 341-58

Louise I. Shelley

`Organized Crime in Russia Today', Jamestown Foundation Prism, 17 April, pp. 3, 7, 14, 15

Alena V. Ledeneva

`Shunning Tradition: Ethnic Organized Crime in the Former Soviet Union', Crime and Justice International, 8, pp. 5-6

Joseph Serio

PART IV RUSSIAN ORGANIZED CRIME AND THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY

`Privatizatsiya and Kriminalizatsiya: How Organized Crime Is Hijacking Privatization', Demokratizatsiya, 2, pp. 385-91

Svetlana P. Glinkina

`Practices of Exchange and Networking in Russia', Journal of Financial Crime, 6, pp. 218-33

Alena V. Ledeneva

`Violent Entrepreneurship in Post-Communist Russia', Europe-Asia Studies, 51, pp. 741-54

Vadim Volkov

`The Mafiya and the New Russia', Australian Journal of Politics and History, 44, pp. 415-29

Mark Galeotti

PART V GLOBAL RUSSIAN ORGANIZED CRIME?

`The Sexy Russian Mafia', Criminal Organizations, 10, pp. 28-32

Lydia S. Rosner

`Hysteria, Complacency and Russian Organized Crime', PSBF Briefing (Royal Institute of International Affairs), 8, pp. 1-6

Phil Williams

`Russian Emigre Crime in the United States: Organized Crime or Crime that is Organized?', Transnational Organized Crime, 2, pp. 139-55

James Finckenauer

Elin Waring

`Inside the Russian Mafiya', Jane's Intelligence Review, March, pp. 8-9

Mark Galeotti

Name Index