This work examines the political and organizational factors that have shaped Russian economic reforms since the demise of the Soviet Union. The author draws on

Examines the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the birth of the Russian state, focusing on Yeltsin's disastrous policies, which brought on an economic co

This text sets Russia's current economic transformation in the context of economic and political change, and provides an overview of issues central to the econo

From the drastic liberalization of prices and "shock therapy" to the privatization of state owned property and Yeltsin's resignation and replacement by Vladimir

For centuries, dictators ruled Russia. Tsars and Communist Party chiefs were in charge for so long some analysts claimed Russians had a cultural predisposition