Mr Gilman's portrait of Russia in the 1990s details every twist and turn of policy in sometimes excruciating detail.
Mr Gilman's view is that there was less outright pilferage than is commonly believed, though American food aid and bilateral trade credits were two areas where corruption was endemic.
Given just how heavily the cards appear to have been stacked against Russia in Mr Gilman's account, it is not surprising that the wayward progress of its economic transformation in the 1990s culminated in its 1998 default.
Still, those trying to reform other highly indebted economies on the brink of default will find plenty to chew over in Mr Gilman's account of the toxic interaction between domestic politics and otherwise soundly conceived economic policies.
Just how much so readers will learn from Martin Gilman's account of Russia's fitful, often stumbling economic reforms in the short decade between the collapse of the Soviet Union and the country's default on its domestic debt in 1998.
Three years after he founded SPCA International and became its president, Barnoti was fired as the Montreal SPCA's president after leaving the Canadian charity deeply in debt to Quadriga Art, according to Nicholas Gilman, Montreal SPCA's executive director.
Mr Gilman cautions that Russia's fundamental institutional problems, including the absence of much rule of law, still need to be properly addressed.
Perhaps it is hoped no one will recall a detailed Publisher's Weekly item in May crediting stockbroker Scott Gilman.
But it's the two young lovers, portrayed by newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward, who steal the show.
In 1987, Mr. Gilman sent John Lukas, a zoologist who heads White Oak's conservation program, to Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) to work with pygmy tribes to capture an okapi, an extremely rare animal that resembles a cross between a giraffe and a zebra.
On the Burke-Gilman Trail, you will see a melange of biker species that comprise Seattle's teeming cycling community: competitive roadies suctioned head-to-toe in matching lycra, lay-cyclists out for the views, aloof bike messengers pierced in double-take places, downtown commuters bedazzled with blinky lights and reflectors, students getting somewhere fast and cheaply, weekend warrior dads working off the muffin-top, vegan earth-lovers determined to live sustainably and any mix thereof.
As the IMF's senior representative in Russia, based in Moscow during the 1990s, Mr Gilman is well-placed to offer an unusually detailed account of what really went on as the IMF tried to work with the Russian authorities to help it move from post-Soviet chaos to a functioning market economy.
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