Conversations on Russia Reform from Yeltsin to Putin

Name: Conversations on Russia Reform from Yeltsin to Putin
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ISBN: 9780195300611

ISBN-10: 0195300610

ISBN-13: 9780195300611

Edition: 2006

Authors: Padma Desai

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Much of the discussion of Russia's recent post-Communist history has amounted, both in Russia and the West, to a series of monologues by strong-minded people with starkly divergent views. In contrast, Padma Desai's conversations with influential, intelligent participants and observers provide the reader with a broad, nuanced view of what has and has not happened in the last fourteen years, and why. Conversations from Russia will thus serve as a much-needed reference volume, both for academics who study Russia and for laypeople who only have vague perceptions of what has occurred in Russia since the collapse of Communism. In conversations with important figures like Boris Yeltsin, George…

Book details

List price: $98.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/13/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 398
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.18" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Participants


Introduction



Reform Maximalists



Boris Yeltsin: The Wrecking Ball



Anatoly Chubais: The "Neo-Bolshevik" Privatizer



Yegor Gaidar: The Shock Therapist



Boris Nemtsov: The Political Activist



Mikhail Kasyanov: The Pro-Market Prime Minister



Strobe Talbott: Bill Clinton's "Russia Hand"



Reform Gradualists



Grigory Yavlinsky: The Permanent Oppositionist



Sergei Rogov: In Search of Checks and Balances at Home and Abroad



Nodari Simonia: The Pro-Putin Vote



George Soros: The Active Philanthropist



Five Policy Perspectives



Sergei Dubinin: Monopoly Sector Reform in Progress



Oleg Vyugin: Monetary Policy in Action



Boris Jordan: Media Man and Investor



Anatoly Vishnevsky: Demographic Dilemmas



Jack Matlock Jr.: The Road Ahead



The Role of History



Martin Malia: History Lessons



Richard Pipes: The Past in the Present


Index