The KGB Campaign against Corruption in Moscow, 1982–1987

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RUNNING HEAD RECTO  Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction ix List of Acronyms and Terms xvii 1. A Force That Eluded Control: The Rise of the Moscow Trade Organizations 1 2. Integrity and Efficiency: The KGB’s Anticorruption War 43 3. Who, How Many, and How Much? Corruption in the Moscow Trade Organizations 100 4. The War the KBG Lost 40 Conclusion: Changes in the Moscow Trade Organizations 201 Appendix: Officials Charged with Bribing Deputy Directors of the Administration for Food Product Trade Organizations 213 Notes 217 Selected Bibliography 231 Index 237  RUNNING HEAD VERSO RUNNING HEAD RECTO  Acknowledgments I would like to thank Darcy Dunton and Josie Panzuto, who worked on revising the manuscript and translating some sections of the book. I would like to express my gratitude to Ian Gow, Antonino Geraci, and Iuri Klimov, who devoted their invaluable time and energy to reviewing this manuscript and making judicious comments and suggestions. In the discussions I had with them, I truly appreciated their feedback, which definitely contributed toward improving the manuscript. V. Scherrer and E. Piskunova have been exemplary research assistants , selecting the most pertinent data for my research. They provided me with excellent support in translating Russian documents that were not always easy to understand. I would also like to express my thanks to the following people: to D. Atanasov, for his transliteration of Russian terms and his contribution to the preparation of the bibliography; and to Caroline Le Blanc, who skillfully handled the word processing and also contributed to revising the manuscript. I am also grateful to the Université de Montréal for having provided me with financial assistance so that I could conduct my research on corruption in Soviet Moscow in the 1980s. In addition, mention must be made of the fact that the university’s Department of Political Science allowed me to devote considerable time to writing this book. Lastly, I wish to express my thanks to my colleagues at Moscow State University and several prosecutors working in Russian law enforcement agencies, all of whom made it possible for me to have access to substantial , original data and documents about the campaign against corruption in the 1980s.  RUNNING HEAD VERSO ...