Foreign Policy Research Institute A Nation Must Think Before it Acts Why Russia Can’t Seem to Reform

Why Russia Can’t Seem to Reform

  • January 1, 2002

Without a Map: Political Tactics and Economic Reform in Russia. By Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000).

The New Russia: Economic Transition Gone Awry. Edited by Lawrence R. Klein and Marshall Pomer. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001).

The Tragedy of Russia’s Reforms: Market Bolshevism against Democracy. By Peter Reddaway and Dmitri Glinski. (Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2001).

Russia’s “Market” Economy: A Bad Case of Predatory Capitalism. By Stefan Hedlund. (London: UCL Press, 2000).

Money Unmade: Barter and the Fate of Russian Capitalism. By David M. Woodruff. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999).

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