This book is a brief history of the "dashing 90s" in a fascinating exposition of Kommersant journalists Valeria Bashkirova, Alexander Solovyov and Vladislav Dorofeev. The first restaurants and mortgage auctions, the Alisa exchange and Yegor Gaidar, the shooting of the White House and vouchers, Boris Yeltsin and the Chechen wars, MMM and GKO, contract killings and privatization, Pavlovian reform of the ruble and financial crises, Russian paratroopers in Pristina and the Khasavyurt world, the heyday of NTV and "Semibankirshchina," Aum Shinrikyo and Khoper-invest, Boris Berezovsky, Anatoly Chubais and Alexander Lebed.