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NY Times, April 17, 2018
Karen Dawisha, 68, Dies; Traced Roots of Russian Corruption
By ELLEN BARRY
Karen Dawisha, a Russia scholar who researched Vladimir V. Putin’s
circle of trusted friends from St. Petersburg in the 1990s and, in a
2014 book, labeled the state they plotted out a “kleptocracy,” died on
April 11 in Oxford, Ohio. She was 68.
Her husband, Adeed Dawisha, said the cause was lung cancer.
Ms. Dawisha, who at the time was a professor of political science at the
Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami
University in Oxford, distilled her research into “Putin’s Kleptocracy:
Who Owns Russia?”
The book argued that corruption and authoritarianism in Russia in recent
decades were not byproducts of the country’s emergence from communism
but rather building blocks of a plan devised in the early 1990s by Mr.
Putin and a circle of trusted associates. Many were, like him, former
K.G.B. officers who were appalled by the breakup of the Soviet Union.
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I just ran across an online version of her book:
http://willzuzak.ca/cl/putin/Dawisha2014PutinKleptocracy.pdf
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