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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462199903321

Autore

Medvedev Roy Aleksandrovich <1925->

Titolo

Post-Soviet Russia : A Journey Through the Yeltsin Era

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Columbia University Press, 2000

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (409 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ShriverGeorge

Disciplina

338.947/009/049

338.947009049

Soggetti

Capitalism -- Russia (Federation)

Russia (Federation) -- Economic conditions -- 1991-

Russia (Federation) -- Economic policy -- 1991-

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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