Download or read book The Wild East written by Viktor Mikhaĭlovich Sergeev and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative analysis of the problem of all-pervasive corruption and surging violent crime in last Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. Victor Sergeyev asks how it is possible to label and control certain behaviors as deviant in a context where the legal and moral-ethical norms of a collapsed regime have been discredited but not replaced -- particularly when the elite of that failed regime, in league with a patently criminal element, is thriving in the new chaos.