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Cover -- Dedication -- Prologue -- Part One -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Part Two -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 18 -- Chapter 19 -- Chapter 20 -- Chapter 21 -- Chapter 22 -- Chapter 23 -- Chapter 24 -- Part Three -- Chapter 25 -- Chapter 26 -- Chapter 27 -- Chapter 28 -- Chapter 29 -- Chapter 30 -- Chapter 31 -- Chapter 32 -- Chapter 33 -- Chapter 34 -- Chapter 35 -- Chapter 36 -- Chapter 37 -- Chapter 38 -- Chapter 39 -- Chapter 40 -- Epilogue -- Afterword -- Author's Note -- Copyright.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART: ONE -- 1 Flight to the east -- 2 Into Siberia -- 3 'Put down your guns!' -- PART: TWO -- 4 Boy from the Komsomol -- 5 Gathering the team -- 6 Computers and banks -- 7 August 1991 -- 8 Sale of the century? -- 9 Consolidating the gains -- PART: THREE -- 10 New man in the Kremlin -- 11 Buying up the Duma? -- 12 Igor Sechin and the 'strongmen' -- 13 Showdown in the Kremlin -- 14 Looking for trouble -- 15 Pipelines and provocation -- 16 Open Russia -- 17 Friends in the West -- PART: FOUR -- 18 The Family and the Siloviki -- 19 More arrests -- 20 Yukos and the struggle for Russia -- 21 A Kremlin double-cross? -- 22 Exile or gaol -- 23 Americans in town -- 24 The ExxonMobil gaffe -- 25 A final plea? -- 26 Arrest in Siberia -- PART: FIVE -- 27 Counting the cost -- 28 Trying to stay afloat -- 29 The Abramovich connection -- 30 The Kremlin explains -- 31 Fight or flight -- 32 Khodorkovsky shunned -- PART: SIX -- 33 'Just like Al Capone' -- 34 Justice on trial -- 35 The murder business -- 36 The Chechen connection -- 37 Hostages? -- 38 In the camps -- 39 Prophet in a prison cell -- 40 A battle of Titans -- PART: SEVEN -- 41 The UK connection -- 42 The British troika -- 43 A Canadian gambit -- 44 The Brits bite back -- 45 Cashing in the profits -- 46 The startled accountants -- 47 Traitors in the ranks? -- 48 Hope -- 49 Hope abandoned -- 50 Light at the end of a disaster?

A commentary discusses the events on the day of the coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union on August 19, 1991. Adapted from the source document.

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