Gilles Favarel-Garrigues, La police des moeurs économiques de l’URSS à la Russie (1965-1995)

Dr. Favarel-Garrigues explains that economic crime in the Soviet Union and subsequently in Russia in the 1990s was not just a crime problem but a problem that had broad political implications. In the Soviet period, when all was state owned those who violated the laws on state property were committing crimes against the state and were subject to very strict sanctions up to and including the death penalty. In the post-Soviet period, when state property was distributed and privatized, economic c...