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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. Profiles of Entrepreneurs -- 1. Joining the Winners: Self-Employment and Stratification in Post-Soviet Russia -- 2. The Worm and the Caterpillar: The Small Private Sector in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia -- 3. The Yu Zuomin Phenomenon: Entrepreneurs and Politics in Rural China -- 4. Security and Enforcement as Private Business: The Conversion of Russia's Power Ministries and Its Institutional Consequences -- 5. The Construction of a Professional Field: Resources, Skills, and Attributes of Founders of the Market Research Sector in Poland, 1989 to 1997 -- 6. Entrepreneurs and Democratization in China's Foreign Sector -- Part Two. Patterns of Entrepreneurialism -- 7. Entrepreneurial Action in the State Sector: The Economic Decisions of Chinese Managers -- 8. Entrepreneurial Strategies and the Structure of Transaction Costs in Russian Business -- 9. The Embedded Politics of Entrepreneurship and Network Restructuring in East-Central Europe -- 10. Social Capital and Entrepreneurial Success: Hungarian Small Enterprises Between 1993 and 1996 -- 11. Entrepreneurial Governmentality in Postsocialist Russia: A Cultural Investigation of Business Practices -- 12. Marketing Civility, Civilizing the Market: Chinese Multilevel Marketing's Challenge to the State -- Index.

Informal networks, collective action, and sources of (in)stability in Russia: a brief overview / Victoria E. Bonnell and George W. Breslauer -- When more is less: superexecutive power and political underdevelopment in Russia / M. Steven Fish -- Personalism versus proceduralism: Boris Yeltsin and the institutional fragility of the Russian system / George W. Breslauer -- Russia's second Constitutional Court: politics, law, and stability / Robert Sharlet -- Institutional decline in the Russian military: exit, voice, and corruption / Kimberly Marten Zisk -- Stability and disorder: an evolutionary analysis of Russia's virtual economy / Clifford G. Gaddy and Barry W. Ickes -- Russia in the information age / Emma Kiselyova and Manuel Castells -- Organized crime and social instability in Russia: the alternative state, deviant bureaucracy, and social black holes / Victor M. Sergeyev -- Russia's new entrepreneurs / Victoria E. Bonnell -- The Russian working class in times of transition / Victor Zaslavsky -- Domestic involution: how women organize survival in a north Russian city / Michael Burawoy, Pavel Krotov, and Tatyana Lytkina -- The redefinition of the Russian nation, international security, and stability / Igor Zevelev -- Serving mother Russia: the Communist left and Nationalist right in the struggle for power, 1991-1998 / Veljko Vujačič -- Dagestan and the stability of instability in the north Caucasus / Edward W. Walker.

On August 19, 1991, eight high-ranking Soviet officials took over the government of the USSR and proclaimed themselves its new rulers. Less than seventy-two hours later, their coup had collapsed, but it would change the course of history in a way that no one - certainly not the plotters themselves - could have foreseen. The editor of this volume, who witnessed these momentous events, have assembled firsthand accounts of the attempted coup. They include testimonies from "junta" members and military officers, resistance leaders and ordinary citizens, Muscovites and residents of other locales, Russian and foreign journalists, foreign visitors and returning emigres, as well as Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. Key documents and photographs complement the individual accounts. The provocative introduction to the volume places the August events in the larger context - from the early days of perestroika and glasnost to the second confrontation at the White House, in October 1993