Russia's capitalist revolution why market reform succeeded and democracy failed
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
Peterson Institute for International Economics
2007.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009623535906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Russian Federation map
- Introduction
- Definitions of Democracy and Market Economy
- Theses of This Book
- The Structure of This Book
- Chapter 1 Perestroika-The Great Awakening: 1985-87
- Why Perestroika Started
- Mikhail Gorbachev and the Outstanding Provincials
- Early Perestroika: Cautious Economic Reforms to Boost Growth
- Glasnost: Shattering All Illusions
- New Thinking on Foreign Policy
- Why Gorbachev's Attempt at Chinese Reforms Failed
- Special photo section
- An Untenable Mix of Changes
- Chapter 2 The Collapse: 1988-91
- Elite Division: Yeltsin, Ligachev, and Gorbachev Part Company
- Democratization
- National Revival and Disputes
- The Demise of the Plan and the Rise of Rent Seeking
- A Parade of Reform Programs
- Collapse of the Outer Empire
- Economic Collapse
- Political Collapse: Yeltsin at His Peak
- An Overdetermined Collapse
- Chapter 3 Revolution: 1991-93
- Yeltsin's Assumption of Power
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union
- Attempt at Radical Market Reform
- Parlimentary Revolt Against the President
- Ambitious Mass Privatization
- Abortive Financial Stabilization
- Failure of the West to Act
- Dissolution of the Parliament and Shootout at the White House
- Great Achievements but Mixed Results
- Chapter 4 The Rise and Fall of State Enterprise Managers: 1994-95
- The New Constitution
- The December 1993 Elections and the End of the Reform Government
- The State Enterprise Managers
- The Making of Gazprom
- Precarious Financial Stabilization
- The Rise of Organized Crime
- The First Chechnya War
- Halt of Reform Exacerbated Social Costs
- Chapter 5 The Oligarchy: 1996-98
- Who Were the Oligarchs?
- The Loans-for-Shares Privatization
- The 1996 Presidential Elections: Oligarchs and Reformers United.
- False Dawn of Reform: The Bankers' War, 1997
- The Financial Crash of August 1998
- NATO and G-7 Enlargement
- Assessing the Oligarchs
- Chapter 6 Postrevolutionary Stabilization: 1999-2003
- Finally Financial Stabilization
- President Yeltsin's Final Days
- Vladimir Putin: KGB Lieutenant-Colonel
- The Second Chechnya War
- Putin's Assumption of Power: Elections of 1999 and 2000
- Muzzling of the Media
- Centralization of Federal Power
- The Gref Program: Second Generation of Economic Reform
- Dictatorship of Law
- Serious Efforts to Join the WTO
- Siloviki, Oligarchs, and Reformers: Who Is Mr. Putin?
- Chapter 7 Authoritarianism and Recentralization: 2004-07
- The Yukos Affair: The End of the Oligarchy
- Elections of 2003 and 2004
- Inauspicious Start of Putin's Second Term
- Consolidating Authoritarian Rule: Deinstitutionalization
- Renationalization: The Creation of the Kremlin, Inc.
- Toward State Capitalism?
- Corruption: Rationalized but Pervasive
- Colored Revolutions
- A New Distance from the West
- Does Russia Suffer from an Energy Curse?
- Putin's Model: Back to Nicholas I
- Chapter 8 Conclusions: Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed
- Market Economy but No Democracy
- Russia's Capitalist Revolution
- Russia's History Is That of Its Leaders and Their Ideas
- Early, Radical, and Comprehensive Reforms Most Effective
- Essence of Privatization: Legitimate Property Rights
- Policymaking in the Midst of a Revolution
- Foreign Aid: Limited but Important
- Russia's Future: Contradiction Between Economic Miracle and Reactionary Politics
- References
- Chronology
- Index.
