We Are Building Capitalism!

Robert Stephenson is a former UK senior civil servant with over thirty-five years of experience working in public administration, including twenty years in international development. He began his international career in Moscow in March 1992 and spent the next five years living and working in the city as a consultant to the new Federal Employment Service, and then leading a major UK-Russia joint funded programme of capacity building for Russian trainers in business and commercial skills. Stephenson went on to lead a UK government team, based in the National School of Government, dedicated to supporting civil service development and reform around the world. For the next 15 years he continued to work with Russian counterparts and led partnerships with civil service institutions in Central and Eastern Europe and former Yugoslavia. Since leaving the service he has concentrated on developing his lifelong passion for travel and photography and his first book, "We Are Building Capitalism! Moscow in Transition 1992-1997" - written from his personal experience and using his own photographs - provides a unique portrait of the city through the turbulent years that followed the dissolution of the Soviet Union.