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  • The centerpiece of the Western program, rapid privatization of the former communist production system, quickly degenerated into what the Russians called "grabitization," the unfair seizure of old state assets by party apparatchiks who became oligarchs with insider connections.

    What’s Putin’s Game? 2007

  • Especially in the case of the former Soviet Union, his greatest ideological foe, he saw that too-rapid privatization led to "grabitization," the unfair seizure of old state assets by former Communist Party apparatchiks.

    The Change Agent 2007

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