Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia

Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

There's a three-way struggle or contest going on with the Central Asian republics, involving Russia, China, and the United States. Beijing is pursuing a very active diplomacy at the moment, [not only] in Central Asia [but in] the South Pacific, Latin America, Africa, which it can afford to do because of its enormous economic gravitational pull.

It doesn't take much to move Russia.

The Cold War was wildly expensive and consumed the entire globe.