Russia's historic transition from communism in the 1990s sparked
intense, often ideological debates. This book offers a firsthand
glimpse into the intellectual challenges that Russia's turbulent
transition generated. It deals with many of the most important
reforms, from Gorbachev's half-hearted "perestroika," to the mass
privatization program, to the efforts to build legal and regulatory
institutions of a market economy. The essays in this book attempt
to identify the driving forces of Russia's rapidly changing
economic and social reality.
To understand Yeltsin's reforms, the book argues, it is
essential to grasp their twin goals of destroying the remnants of
the communist order and building the institutions of a market
economy. Time after time, reforms were shaped to assure that
communism, with its overwhelming control of the economy and
society, the planning ministries, and pervasive centralization,
cannot come back to Russia. Many of the successes, as well as the
pathologies, of the Russian economy during the 1990s must be
understood from this perspective. Despite many setbacks, Yeltsin
succeeded in his life's mission. By the end of the twentieth
century, both a market economy and a democracy were developed in
Russia. Each was both vulnerable and flawed, but the escape from
communism was certain. A decade after communism, Russia became a
normal country.
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