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Collapse of an empire : lessons for modern Russia / Yegor Gaidar ; translated by Antonina W. Bouis.
Van Pelt Library DK510.763 .G34913 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gaĭdar, E. T. (Egor Timurovich)
- Standardized Title:
- Gibelʹ imperii : uroki dli͡a sovremennoĭ Rossii. English
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Russia (Federation)--Politics and government--1991-.
- Russia (Federation).
- Politics and government.
- Authoritarianism--Russia (Federation).
- Authoritarianism.
- Soviet Union--Politics and government--1985-1991.
- Soviet Union.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2007]
- Contents:
- The grandeur and the fall of empires
- Authoritarian regimes: the causes of instability
- The oil curse
- Cracks in the foundation: the Soviet Union in the early 1980s
- The political economy of external shocks
- Development of the crisis of the socialist system
- On the path to state bankruptcy
- The fall.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-314) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0815731140
- 9780815731146
- OCLC:
- 144225386
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