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Post-Soviet Russia : A Journey Through the Yeltsin Era
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Medvedev, Roy Aleksandrovich, 1925-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capitalism--Russia (Federation).
- Russia (Federation)--Economic conditions--1991-.
- Russia (Federation)--Economic policy--1991-.
- Local Subjects:
- Capitalism--Russia (Federation).
- Russia (Federation)--Economic conditions--1991-.
- Russia (Federation)--Economic policy--1991-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (409 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- Roy Medvedev, one of the world's best-known Russian scholars and a former consultant to both Gorbachev and Yeltsin analyzes the main events that have transpired in the Russian federation since late August 1991. He looks at the plans that were meant to
- Contents:
- Contents; Translator's Note; Introduction; PART 1 Myths and Realities of Capitalism in Russia; 1 A Capitalist Perestroika: First Steps, 1992-1993; 2 Obstacles to Capitalist Development in Russia; 3 Privatization, Government Crisis, and Elections (1993); 4 The End of Market Romanticism; 5 Russia's New Class; PART 2 The Elections of 1995-96 and Their Aftermath; 6 Duma Elections, December 1995; 7 Gennady Zyuganov as Politician and Ideologist; 8 The Inevitability of Change; PART 3 1998: A Year of Upheaval; 9 "War on the Rails"; 10 Financial Collapse and Another Change of Government
- POSTSCRIPT: Yeltsin's Last Year11 Why the Dismissal of Primakov?; 12 The Dismissal of Stepashin; 13 Who Is Putin?; 14 The Second Chechnya War; 15 The December 1999 Elections; 16 A Change Without a Coup or Revolution; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- OCLC:
- 818856897
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