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9780312238285

Collision and Collusion The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe

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  • ISBN13:

    9780312238285

  • ISBN10:

    0312238282

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-01-13
  • Publisher: Griffin

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Summary

When the Soviet Union's Communist empire collapsed in 1989, the West had won the ultimate victory--it had driven a silver stake through the heart of communism and buried it at last. Soon after, the nations of Eastern Europe needed aid to reconstruct themselves as democratic states and full partners in the First World Order. Collision and Collusion tells the bizarre and sometimes scandalous story ofthe West's attempts to aid the former Soviet block. An expos on a classic tale of greed, ignorance, and the use (or misuse) of tax-payers' dollars, Janine R. Wedel looks behind the scenes at the bureaucrats, politicians, and consultants who worked to set up Western economic and political systems in Eastern Europe. Collision and Collusion details the extraordinary costs of institutional ignorance, cultural misunderstanding, and unrealistic expectations.

Author Biography

Janine R. Wedel is an associate research professor and a research fellow at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Affairs at George Washington University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements v
Acronyms vii
Maps
ix
A Note about Terms xiii
A Note about Interviews xiii
Introduction: Some Enchanted Era 1(14)
East Meets West: A New Order for the Second World
15(30)
Consultants for Capitalism
45(40)
A Few Favored Cliques
85(38)
A Few Good Reformers: The Chubais Clan, Harvard, and ``Economic'' Aid
123(52)
A Few Good Financiers: Wall Street Bankers and Biznesmeni
175(20)
Insights from the Second World
195(14)
Appendix 1: Tables 209(10)
Appendix 2: Methodology 219(6)
Appendix 3: Interviews 225(14)
Appendix 4: Economic Aid to Russia 239(6)
Notes 245(50)
Selected Bibliography 295(16)
Index 311

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