Lost opportunity : what has made economic reform in Russia so difficult? /
Saved in:
| Author / Creator: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | New edition. |
| Imprint: | New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 1996. |
| Subjects: | |
| Retention: | Retained for Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (EAST) http://eastlibraries.org/retained-materials |
| Summary: | Combining trenchant commentary with first-person reporting, Marshall I. Goldman provides the clearest picture yet of how Boris Yeltsin took on the task of reforming the Russian economy and what happened along the way. Goldman has added a new chapter for the paperback edition on recent developments. |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | xii, 308 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-298) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0393314855 |
| Author Notes: | He was an authority on the Soviet economy. He diagnosed deficiencies in Moscow's economic policies and was among the first Kremlinologists to predict the downfall of Mikhail S. Gorbachev. He wrote several books including U.S.S.R. in Crisis: The Failure of an Economic System, Gorbachev's Challenge: Economic Reform in the Age of High Technology, and Petrostate: Putin, Power and the New Russia. He died from complications of dementia on August 2, 2017 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) |