Russia's Market Economy: A Bad Case of Predatory Capitalism

ISBN-13: 9781841420530 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 1 str.

Stefan Hedlund

Opis

This text challenges the myth that there is a set of immutable economic laws that can be applied in Russia as everywhere else. The author contends that the chief failure of the 1990s economic reform was a neglect of the country's cultural heritage. It maps out a path which has the roots of Russia's Soviet and post-Soviet problems in old Muscovy, and challenges the myth that they were uniquely linked to communism and the Soviet order.

Spis treści

Preface Part I Introduction 1 Russian riches mismanaged Part II Framework 2 The heavy burden of history 3 Prelude under Gorbachev 4 The West gets involved Part III The reform programme 5 Financial destabilization 6 Banks, bonds and surrogate money 7 Russia under the new regime Part IV Lessons to be learned 8 A Russian path dependence 9 Victory for the kleptocrats? 10 Whither Russia?

O autorze

Stefan Hedlund (Senior Professor of Russian and East European Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden)