Underground millionaire: the truth about private business in the USSR

Existed or did not exist "business" in the USSR? And what was that "business"? Entrepreneurship, initiative, freedom – whether it was in Soviet times? Do it today? It would seem that life has changed, the economy of modern Russia is built on totally different principles than the planned economy in the USSR. However, the author argues that no society greater danger than to succumb to the false charm of a bygone era. The market economy? But the authorities at any moment ready to take over the levers of management. The right to private property? But entrepreneurs, as before, under the control of officials, the police, FBI, prosecutors, firefighters... Democracy? But "United Russia" is almost a complete copy of the Soviet Communist party... This book is not about the plunderers of socialist property, the grabbers, the machinists and the speculators of the USSR. This book is about people whose energy, passion, resourcefulness, willingness to take risks and the ability to earn money can be fulfilled only illegal. This book – and about the present: how it works and what degenerates business, forced to exist in conditions of lawlessness and outside the law. For a wide range of readers.