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Desai Padma |
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Titolo |
Conversations on Russia [[electronic resource] ] : reform from Yeltsin to Putin / / Padma Desai |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
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0-19-534581-9 |
1-280-84617-8 |
1-4294-0299-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (398 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Privatization - Russia (Federation) |
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Russia (Federation) Economic policy 1991- |
Soviet Union Economic policy 1986-1991 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Reform maximalists -- Boris Yeltsin : the wrecking ball -- Anatoly Chubais : the "neo-bolshevik" privatizer -- Yegor Gaidar : the shock therapist -- Boris Nemtsov : the political activist -- Mikhail Kasyanov : the pro-market prime minister -- Strobe Talbott : Bill Clinton's "Russia hand" -- Reform gradualists -- Grigory Yavlinsky : the permanent oppositionist -- Sergei Rogov : in search of checks and balances at home and abroad -- Nodari Simonia : the pro-Putin vote -- George Soros : the active philanthropist -- Five policy perspectives -- Sergei Dubinin : monopoly sector reform in progress -- Oleg Vyugin : monetary policy in action -- Boris Jordan : media man and investor -- Anatoly Vishnevsky : demographic dilemmas -- Jack Matlock, Jr. : the road ahead -- The role of history -- Martin Malia : history lessons -- Richard Pipes : the past in the present. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Much of the discussion of Russia's recent post-Communist history has amounted, both in Russia and the West, to a series of monologues by strong-minded people with starkly divergent views. In contrast, Padma Desai's conversations with influential, intelligent participants and observers providethe reader with a broad, nuanced view of what has |
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