Russia : A Long View Hardback
by Yegor (Director, Institute for the Economy in Transition) Gaidar
Part of the The MIT Press series
Hardback
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An important Russian economist and politician takes a long view of economic history and Russia's development. It is not so easy to take the long view of socioeconomic history when you are participating in a revolution.
For that reason, Russian economist Yegor Gaidar put aside an early version of this work to take up a series of government positions-as Minister of Finance and as Boris Yeltsin's acting Prime Minister-in the early 1990s.
In government, Gaidar shepherded Russia through its transition to a market economy after years of socialism.
Once out of government, Gaidar turned again to his consideration of Russia's economic history and long-term economic and political challenges.
This book, revised and updated shortly before his death in 2009, is the result. Gaidar's account of long-term socioeconomic trends puts his country in historical context and outlines problems faced by Russia (and other developing economies) that more developed countries have already encountered: aging population, migration, evolution of the system of social protection, changes in the armed forces, and balancing stability and flexibility in democratic institutions.
This is not a memoir, but, Gaidar points out, neither is it "written from the position of a man who spent his entire life in a research institute." Gaidar's "long view" is inevitably informed and enriched by his experience in government at a watershed moment in history.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:568 pages, 44 figures, 88 tables; 132 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
- Publication Date:12/10/2012
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- ISBN:9780262017411
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:568 pages, 44 figures, 88 tables; 132 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
- Publication Date:12/10/2012
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- ISBN:9780262017411