Lev Timofeyev was one of the last dissidents to be jailed in the Soviet Union by the Gorbachev regime, and during the 1991 attempted coup he was one of a small group designated by the KGB for immediate arrest. In Russia's Secret Rulers Timofeyev shows how the Communists are successfully preserving the hidden structures of power they created during seventy-odd years of rule, and - acting like a mafia - still have hold of the essential levers of power....