Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - Rise of the Citizen Oligarch Origins -- Origins -- The birth of Russian capitalism -- From banks to oil -- The oligarchs are born -- "The experiment is over" -- Corporate transformations -- Personal life -- Chapter 2 - The State and the Oligarchs -- Equidistance and Uniformity -- Muddy waters -- Business and the state -- Between assaults -- From equidistance to subordination -- Opening Russia -- The revenge of the state -- Chapter 3 - Why Khordorkovsky? -- A state within a state -- Khodorkovsky's defection -- The merger of Yukos and Sibneft -- Parliament and lobbying -- Financing Parties -- The reorganisation of power -- Foreign-policy struggles -- Chapter 4 - The State Strikes Back -- The anti-Yukos 'politburo' -- First arrests -- Khodorkovsky's response -- Khodorkovsky's arrest -- First reactions -- Political fallout -- Chapter 5 - Basmanny Justice -- Pre-trial detention -- The criminal case -- The first trial -- Reactions -- Appeal -- In the penal colony -- Chapter 6- Collateral Damage -- Pichugin: The Tambov cases and Valentina Korneeva -- Nefteyugansk and the murder of Petukhov -- The East Petroleum Handels case (Yevgeny Rybin) -- The Temerko case -- The Bakhmina case -- Vasily Aleksanyan -- Antonio Valdes-Garcia (Seibatdalov) -- Other cases -- Chapter 7 - The Trial of the Century -- Further charges -- 'A thief should sit in jail' -- The system exposed -- Pardon and parole -- Chapter 8 - Russia on Trial -- International commentary and resolutions -- Appeals to the European Court of Human Rights -- Chapter 9 - From Oligarch to Dissident -- Business and the state -- The crisis of Russian liberalism -- Khodorkovsky as political philosopher and commentator -- Property and freedom -- First interview from jail -- Freedom the Russian way.

Chapter 10 - Russia Is Worthy of Freedom -- The left turn -- Realism or fatalism -- Another left turn -- The Medvedev years -- Commentator on Russian politics -- Chapter 11 - Return, Resistance and Reform -- Putin's return -- The seeds of modernity -- Presidential review -- Pardon again -- Putinism and the future -- Freedom -- Chapter 12 - Conclusion -- List of Acronyms -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Illustrations.