Download or read book Organized Crime, Political Transitions and State Formation in Post-Soviet Eurasia written by A. Kupatadze and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on over 130 interviews with criminals, law enforcement officials and government representatives from post-Soviet Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, this book situates organized crime in the debate on state formation and examines the diverging patterns in organized crime following the aftermath of these countries' Coloured Revolutions.