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NEW!   PERFECT FOR POST-SOVIET CULTURE COURSES!   A MUST FOR RUSSIAN
BUSINESS COURSES!

Aleksandr Panikin, Private Wealth-National Vision:  The Memoirs of a New
Russian Entrepreneur, trans. E. W. Clowes (Stony Brook:  Slavic Cultural
Center Press, 2000), xi, 78 pp.

Private Wealth-National Vision is the first known memoir of a new Russian
entrepreneur.  In this fascinating rags-to-riches story Aleksandr Panikin
tells how as a student in the 1970s he began a largely legal business
making and selling decorative masks under the repressive conditions of the
Brezhnev regime.  He gives a lively account of how he accumulated the
capital he would eventually use to found PANINTER, one of post-Soviet
Russia's most successful private garment-manufacturing firms.  How he
dodged the police and negotiated with stolid, Soviet-era bureaucrats and
economic managers for the documents and materials he needed will intrigue
even your least motivated students.

Panikin is concerned with the ethical bases for a new Russian capitalist
order.  He ventures opinions as to how the good Russian capitalist ought to
be, and he calls Russia's political leaders to task for not creating better
legal and financial conditions for a prosperous manufacturing culture.
This memoir will be a welcome addition to any course in Russian and East
European business culture or post-Soviet culture.

ORDERS:

Please send $7.00 plus $2.00 for postage to:

Private Wealth-National Vision
Attn.: G. G. Kochanski
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Kansas
Wescoe Hall
1445 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 2134
Lawrence, KS 66045-7590

tel.:  785-864-2359
fax: 785-864-4298

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