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Russia : a long view / Yegor Gaidar ; translated by Antonina W. Bouis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gaĭdar, E. T. (Egor Timurovich)
- Standardized Title:
- Dolgoe vremi͡a. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic history.
- Russia (Federation)--Economic conditions.
- Russia (Federation).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (563 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An important Russian economist and politician takes a long view of economic history and Russia's development.
- Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Modern economic growth
- Economic determinism and the twentieth-century experience
- The general and the particular in modern economic growth
- Agrarian societies and capitalism
- Traditional agrarian society
- A different path
- The phenomenon of antiquity
- Capitalism and the rise of Europe
- The trajectory of Russia's development
- Particular features of Russia's economic development
- The collapse of an empire
- Major issues of the postindustrial world
- The post-socialist crisis and recovery growth
- The dynamics of population and international migration
- The state burden on the economy
- The formation and crisis of systems of social safeguards
- The evolution of education and healthcare systems
- The transformation of the system for manning the armed forces
- On the stability and flexibility of political systems
- Epilogue
- Bibliographical references
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Translated from the Russian.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-30438-4
- 1-283-69197-3
- 0-262-30530-5
- OCLC:
- 813932068
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