Author David Satter pieces together what happened after the fall of the Soviet Union, tracing the rise of Vladimir Putin and the parallel lawlessness that pervades Russia today. In his new book, Darkness At Noon: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State (Yale University Press), Satter writes that the absence of a legitimate legal system and the push for the privatization of property led to the rise of a dangerous criminal state, one that is armed with an arsenal of nuclear weapons. David Satter joins host Larry Mantle to discuss the transition that Russia made from a Communist state to a free market economy.
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