Tragedy of Russia's Reforms

by Reddaway, Peter; Glinski, Dmitri

• ISBN13: 9781929223060
• ISBN10: 1929223064
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: United States Inst of Peace Pr

Summary

The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms presents a boldly original analysis of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the birth of the Russian state. The keys to understanding these events, the authors argue, are the prescriptions of Western "transitologists", the International Monetary Fund, and advocates of economic "shock therapy". These prescriptions allowed the nomenklatura and the financial "oligarchs" to acquire Russia's industrial and natural resources and to heavily influence the country's political destiny.In this long-awaited, sweeping interpretation, the authors skillfully place the contemporary Russian experience in the context of history, political theory, and Russia's place in the international system.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction	1	(16)
Reform or Reaction? The Yeltsin Era in a Millennium of Russian History	17	(22)
Russian Postcommunism in the Mirror of Social Theory	39	(48)
Populists, the Establishment, and the Soviet Decline	87	(70)
From Russian Sovereignty to the August Coup: A Missed Chance for a Democratic Revolution	157	(74)
Catching up with the Past: The Political Economy of Shock Therapy	231	(78)
Yeltsin and the Opposition: The Art of Co-Optation and Marginalization, 1991-1993	309	(60)
Tanks as the Vehicle of Reform: The 1993 Coup and the Imposition of the New Order	369	(66)
The Imperial Presidency in a Privatized State, 1994-1996	435	(96)
Market Bolshevism in Action: The Dream Team, Shock Therapy II, and Yeltsin's Search for a Successor	531	(92)
Epilogue: Market Bolshevism, A Historical Interpretation	623	(20)
Notes	643	(78)
Index	721