Daniel rabinovich biography
(The Oligarch: Vadim Rabinovich Breaks the Silence)
Jürgen Roth
Hamburg, GER: Europa Verlag, 2001
299 p.
(Language: German)
Subject, Methods, Database:
An autobiography of Vadim Rabinovich, Ukrainian oligarch, written by German investigative journalist Jürgen Roth, who injects an occasional third-person comment.
Content:
Oligarchs are business tycoons who got rich from privatizations after the collapse of the state planned economy in the Soviet Union. One of them is Rabinovich who agreed to a series of interviews with Roth in 1999 and 2000.
Vadim Rabinovich is born in 1953 to jewish parents in Kharkov, Urkaine; his father an army officer, his mother a physician. His life in the Soviet Union is determined by the laws of survival in an economy of shortage, the limits set on private initiative, and anti-semitism which blocks certain career paths for jews. At times Rabinovich is on top when he demonstrat