The KGB Campaign against Corruption in Moscow, 1982–1987

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RUNNING HEAD RECTO  Notes Chapter 1. A Force That Eluded Control 1. N. Khrushchev, Memoirs (Moscow, 1971), pp. 84–85, quoted in Vladimir Nekrasov , Trinadtsat’ “zheleznykh narkomov” (Moscow: Izdatelstvo Verst, 1995), p. 204. 2. See Zhores Medvedev, Andropov (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983), p. 66. 3. See Cornelius Castoriadis, Devant la guerre (Paris: Fayard, 1981). 4. “At some stage, we placed certain republics, territories, provinces, and cities outside the zone of criticism. In local areas, this led to a situation in which a species of untouchable districts, collective farms, state farms, factories, etc., began to appear.” In “Political Report to the Twenty-seventh Congress of the Communist Party,” Pravda, February 27, 1986, in Current Digest of the Soviet Press, March 1986, p. 34. 5. Dennis C. Mueller, ed., Public Choice II (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 248–51. 6. W. A. Clark, Crime and Punishment in Soviet Officialdom: Combating Corruption in the Political Elite (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1993), p. 29. 7. V. I. Lenin, Polnoe sobranie sochinenia, vol. 44, p. 173. 8. K. Jowitt, “Challenging the Correct Line: Reviewing Katherine Verdery’s What Was Socialism and What Comes Next?” East European Politics and Society 12, no. 1 (1998): 96. 9. Max Weber, Economy and Society (London, 1989), p. 215. See also Max Weber, Max Weber on Law in Economy and Society, ed. Max Rheinstein (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969), pp. 336–37. 10. G. Dolgov, “Gnil,” Kriminal, no. 1 (1991). 11. Quoted in Y. Seosanov, “Moscow Trade Abuses No Longer Isolated,” Izvestia, May 30, 1986, quoted in Current Digest of the Soviet Press, July 9, 1986, p. 2. 12. Quoted in V. I. Sukhanov, Sovetskoe pokolenie i Gennadiĭ Ziuganov (Moscow, 1999), p. 298. 13. See Luc Duhamel, “The Last Campaign against Corruption in Soviet Moscow,” Europe-Asia Studies 56, no. 2 (2004): 187–213. 14. Zaiavlenie ot podsledstvennogo V. K. Rosliakova nachal’niku Sledstvennogo otdela upravleniia KGB po g. Moskve i Moskovskoĭ oblasti podpolkovniku A. V. Trofimovu (May 15, 1983), p. 1, GARF, Prokuratura RSFSR, ugolovnye dela, delo Mkhitara A. Ambartsumyana. 15. Ibid., p. 2. 16. Zaiavlenie ot podsledstvennogo Mkhitara A. Ambartsumyana, nachal’niku   Sledstvennogo otdela UKGB SSSR po g. Moskve i Moskovskoĭ oblasti A. V. Trofimovu , st. sledovateliu po OVD UKGB po g. Moskve i Moskovskoĭ oblasti V. I. Bunakovu (June 21, 1983), pp. 8–9, GARF, Prokuratura RSFSR, ugolovnye dela, delo Mkhitara A. Ambartsumyana. 17. Nicolas Werth, Histoire de l’Union soviétique (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1990), p. 480. 18. Y. Seosanov, “Moscow Trade Abuses No Longer Isolated,” Izvestia, May 30, 1986, quoted in Current Digest of the Soviet Press, July 9, 1986, p. 2. 19. Ibid. 20. Moskovskaia Pravda, April 26, 1977. 21. Spravka, O nekotorykh prichinakh i usloviakh, sposobstvovašhikh razrastaniu v Moskovskoĭ torgovle prestupnykh posiagatel’stv na sotsialisticheskuiu sobstvennost’ vziatochnichestva, koristnykh zloupotreblenii dolzhnostnym polozheniem v period 1969–1983 godov (July 11, 1986), pp. 4–6. 22. Ibid. 23. Moskva v tsifrakh (Moscow, 1984), p. 134. 24. Ibid. At the end of the 1970s, two enormous hotel complexes, Ismailov and Kosmos , were built for the Olympic Games in Moscow. They became strongholds for dealers of the shadow economy. 25. Izvestia, August 4, 1988. 26. Sotsiologicheskoe Issledovanie, June–July 1977, pp. 107–14. 27. Mueller, Public Choice II, p. 252. 28. Boris Karakhanov, interview by author, Moscow, February 5, 1999. 29. Jaloba v sudebnuiu kollegiiu po ugolovnym delam Verkhovnogo Suda RSFSR, ot Eremeeva Aleksandra Matveevicha, osuzhdenogo k 4 godam 7 mesiatsam 125 dniam lishenia svobody, na prigovor Moskovskogo gorodskogo suda (May 6, 1988), p. 3. This document can be found at the Association for the Defense of Economic Freedom and of Persons Convicted of Economic Offenses, Moscow. 30. V. Bunakov (KGB investigator in the Ambartsumyan case), interview by author, Moscow, February 23, 2000. 31. Bunakov said that Ambartsumyan was a very good specialist. Bunakov interview , February 23, 2000. Eremeev reported that KGB agents considered Filippov one of the best store managers in the trade organizations. Jaloba v sudebnuiu kollegiiu po ugolovnym delam Verkhovnogo Suda RSFSR, ot Eremeeva Aleksandra Matveevicha (May 6, 1988), p. 35. 32. V. Oleinik, interview by author, Moscow, February 10, 1999. 33. Zaiavlenie ot podsledstvennogo Mkhitara A. Ambartsumyana (November 29, 1985), GARF, Prokuratura RSFSR, ugolovnye dela, delo Mhkitara A. Ambartsumyana. 34. Ibid. 35. Anatoly Rubinov, “Soblaznennyĭ i rastreliannyĭ,” Literaturnaya Gazeta, November 22, 1995. 36. Prigovor sudebnoĭ kollegii po ugolovnym delam Verkhovnogo Suda RSFSR po NOTES TO PAGES – [18.219.22.169] Project MUSE (2024-04-16 14:15 GMT...