Luzhkov seeks in this book to demonstrate, to an English-speaking audience , the perverse intractability of the task of administration in the considerable area under his care and command indeed, across the breadth of his vast, post-Soviet homeland. What does he find uncannily at work? Why, nothing other, in all its mischievous permutations, than the famous Law first promulgated by the English professor almost half a century ago, which carries his name, Parkinson's Law, and in its primal form states the irrefutable truth that Work expands to Fill the Time Allotted to Do It In. Such is its blight in contemporary Russia that the author has devoted his sharp pen and wise wit to its diagnosis in this refreshing little work of Parkinsovski's Law, and the spawning of all of Parkinovski's mutated laws in their sheer unbeatable contrariness, such as the Law of Unavoidable Distortion, The 'No, It's Impossible' Law, the Necessary Deception Law (i.e. If you don't cheat you won't sleep), and various strains of the administrative disease which, after all, if never diagnosed shall never be treated. And is there a cure? Read this book