Is Sicily the future of Russia? Private protection and the rise of the Russian Mafia
Is Sicily the future of Russia? Private protection and the rise of the Russian Mafia
复制标题
西西里岛是俄罗斯的未来吗？
DOI：
--
复制
发表时间：
1994
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
Federico Varese
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Federico Varese
当一个人不确切知道一个现象是什么时，就很难讨论它。这个问题在黑手党的情况下尤其令人烦恼。有人认为，"定义（黑手党）的必要性至关重要;不仅是对任何具有某种程度偶然经验可解释性的定义，而且是对具有某种分析影响力的定义“。“黑手党”这个词本身已经传播到遥远的地方，比如前苏联。例如，根据俄罗斯记者和《俄罗斯黑手党》一书的作者Arkadii Vaksberg的说法，黑手党是“整个苏维埃权力体系，包括其所有的意识形态、政治、经济和行政表现”。在一份为与俄罗斯打交道的英国高管撰写的杂志上发表的一篇文章中，黑手党的标签被用来将官僚、高加索走私者、被控挪用国家资金的共产党干部、已故英国商人罗伯特麦克斯韦和其他许多人混为一谈。
It is difficult to discuss a phenomenon when one does not know precisely what it is. This problem is particularly vexing in the case of the Mafia. It has been argued that ‘the need for a definition [of the Mafia] is crucial; not just for any definition with some degree of contingent empirical plausibility, but for a definition with some analytical clout’. The word ‘Mafia’ itself has travelled far to distant lands, such as the former Soviet Union. For instance, according to Arkadii Vaksberg, Russian journalist and author of The Russian Mafia, the Mafia is ‘the entire soviet power-system, all its ideological, political, economical and administrative manifestations’. In an article published in a magazine for British executives dealing with Russia, the label Mafiosi is used to lump together bureaucrats, smugglers from the Caucasus, the cpsunomenklatura accused of embezzling state funds, the late British businessman Robert Maxwell and many others.