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. |