Collision and Collusion The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe

Name: Collision and Collusion The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe
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ISBN: 9780312238285

ISBN-10: 0312238282

ISBN-13: 9780312238285

Edition: Revised

Authors: Janine R. Wedel

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When the Soviet Union’s communist empire collapsed in 1989, a mood of euphoria took hold in the West and in Eastern Europe. The West had won the ultimate victory--it had driven a silver stake through the heart of communism. Its next planned step was to help the nations of Eastern Europe to reconstruct themselves as democratic, free-market states, and full partners in the First World Order. But that, as Janine Wedel reveals in this gripping volume, was before Western governments set their poorly conceived programs in motion. Collision and Collusion tells the bizarre and sometimes scandalous story of Western governments’ attempts to aid the former Soviet block. He shows how by mid-decade,…

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List price: $20.00
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 1/13/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Introduction: Some Enchanted Era


East Meets West: A New Order for the Second World


Consultants for Capitalism


A Few Favored Cliques


A Few Good Reformers: The Chubais Clan, Harvard, and Western Economic Aid


A Few Good Financiers: Wall Street Bankers and Biznesmeni


Insights from the Second World