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100 1 $aGoldman, Marshall I.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79099228
245 10 $aLost opportunity :$bwhy economic reforms in Russia have not worked /$cMarshall Goldman.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton & Co.,$c1994.
263 $a9410
300 $axii, 290 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
505 0 $a1. The Reform That Never Was -- 2. The Rise of Boris Yeltsin -- 3. The Breakup of the Soviet Union -- 4. Economic Advice -- 5. Shock Therapy -- 6. Privatization -- 7. Lessons of History: Postwar West Germany and Japan -- 8. Gradualism or Shock Therapy: Hungary versus Poland -- 9. China as a Model -- 10. Economic Aid: Great Expectations - Massive Disappointments -- 11. The Clash between Economics and History.
520 $aUndaunted by the potholed road the Russians are traveling towards a market economy, Marshall Goldman here explains not only what has happened under Boris Yeltsin, but also what is likely to happen next in the most enigmatic nation in the world.
520 8 $aTrenchant analysis combined with first-person reporting is a Goldman hallmark; in Lost Opportunity he provides the clearest picture yet of how Boris Yeltsin took on the task of reforming the Russian economy. Unlike Mikhail Gorbachev, Yeltsin was won over to the idea of shock therapy, administered by Yegor Gaidar, a young economist eventually appointed acting prime minister. Gaidar did not push economic reforms alone.
520 8 $aHe was encouraged and supported by Western economists, including some who had advocated similar tactics in the former Soviet satellites. But as Goldman starkly reveals, the Russian economy, beset by supply blockages that left goods scarce and prices high, lurched from one unsuccessful quick fix to another.
520 8 $aApparatchiks intent on becoming power brokers in the new state, profiteers, and the notorious Russian mafia further exploited the confusion, opening the way for a strong showing of nationalist extremists in recent elections.
520 8 $aIn contrast to the Russian experience, alternative lessons of history from the post-Second World War revivals of Japan and Germany to the gradualist approach to a free economy in China and Hungary come under close review. In a stunning summing-up, Goldman shows the clash between economics and history that has dogged Russia through the centuries from the revolution in 1917 to the present. Lost Opportunity is a sure-footed account of a slippery period.
651 0 $aRussia (Federation)$xEconomic policy$y1991-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92004892
651 0 $aRussia (Federation)$xEconomic conditions$y1991-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92004886
651 0 $aRussia (Federation)$xPolitics and government$y1991-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006576
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