| The New Russia: Transition Gone Awry Contributor(s): Klein, Lawrence (Editor), Pomer, Marshall (Editor), Gorbachev, Mikhail (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0804741654 ISBN-13: 9780804741651 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $38.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2002 Annotation: " No writing or oratory in history has been more replete with bad advice than that given Russia in the last decade. Here, for a change, is something very good-- the best, in fact, that truly competent and responsible American and Russian scholars have to offer. I strongly recommend it." -- John Kenneth Galbraith " A searching critique of the strategy favored in the West . . . it contributes fresh perspectives on the much debated question concerning the ' big bang' versus ' gradualism' in communist economic transformation." -- Abram Bergson, Harvard University |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development - Political Science | Political Economy |
| Dewey: 338.9 |
| LCCN: 00034443 |
| Physical Information: 1.17" H x 6.04" W x 9.02" (1.40 lbs) 480 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book delivers an unexpected and unpopular message: the West played a pivotal role in the Russian economic disaster of the 1990s. It shows how Western advisors, including the International Monetary Fund and the U.S. Treasury, applied a narrow conception of economics that pushed Russia, after more than 70 years of communism, toward another failed Utopia. |