Russia's Market Economy: A Bad Case of Predatory Capitalism

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Author(s): Stefan Hedlund
Year: 2000

Language: English
Pages: 400

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 9
Introduction......Page 12
Russian riches mismanaged......Page 13
Framework......Page 44
The heavy burden of history......Page 45
Prelude under Gorbachev......Page 88
The West gets involved......Page 114
The reform programme......Page 154
Financial destabilization......Page 155
Banks, bonds and surrogate money......Page 200
Russia under the new regime......Page 236
Lessons to be learned......Page 278
A Russian path dependence......Page 279
Victory for the kleptocrats?......Page 317
Whither Russia?......Page 353
References......Page 384
Index......Page 394