Wheel of Fortune : The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia / Thane Gustafson.
Gustafson, Thane, author.
2012
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Title Wheel of Fortune : The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia / Thane Gustafson.
Author Gustafson, Thane, author.
ISBN 9780674068018
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674068018
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (660 p.) : 3 maps, 7 charts, 2 tables
Item Number 10.4159/harvard.9780674068018 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 338.2728
Summary The Russian oil industry-the world's largest producer and exporter, providing nearly 12 percent of the global supply-is facing mounting problems that could send shock waves through the Russian economy and worldwide. Wheel of Fortune provides an authoritative account of this vital industry from the last years of communism to its uncertain future. Tracking the interdependence among Russia's oil industry, politics, and economy, Thane Gustafson shows how the stakes extend beyond international energy security to include the potential threat of a destabilized Russia. Gustafson, a leading consultant and analyst of the politics of energy in the former Soviet Union, draws on interviews with key players over the course of two decades to provide a detailed history of the oil industry's evolution since the breakup of the Soviet Union. At its center is the complex and fraught relationship between the oil industry and the state, which loosened its grip under Yeltsin only to tighten it again under Putin. As oil becomes harder to find and more expensive to produce and deliver, Gustafson warns, Russia's growing dependence on revenue from oil exports, along with its inefficient and often-corrupt management of the industry, is unsustainable. A rich but troubled Soviet legacy, the conflicting ambitions of politicians and industry oligarchs, and the excesses of capitalism Russian-style threaten to lead Russia to an impasse. Involving the oil industry in the country's modernization agenda and remaking its relationship to the state, Gustafson argues, is Russia's best path toward a stable economy and a safer world.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Breakup: The Soviet Oil Industry Disintegrates
Chapter 2. Riding Chaos: The Battle for Ownership, Money, and Power
Chapter 3. The Birth of the Russian Majors: LUKoil, Surgutneftegaz, and Yukos
Chapter 4. Worlds in Collision: The Foreigners Arrive in Russia
Chapter 5. The Russian "Oil Miracle": 1999- 2004
Chapter 6. The Brothers from Saint Petersburg: The Origins of Putin's State Capitalism
Chapter 7. "Chudo" Meets "Russian Bear": The Yukos Affair
Chapter 8. Russia's Accidental Oil Champion: The Rise of Rosneft
Chapter 9. Krizis: The Rude Awakening of 2008- 2009 and the Russian Oil-Tax Dilemma
Chapter 10. Strong Thumbs, Weak Fingers: How the State Regulates the Oil Industry
Chapter 11. The Half- Raised Curtain: The Foreign Companies as Agents of Change
Chapter 12. Three Colors of Oil: The Coming Crisis of Oil Rents
Chapter 13. Looking Ahead: Oil and the Future of Russia; Russia and the Future of Oil
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

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