Russia And Reform

Author : Peter Reddaway
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
ISBN 13 : 9781929223060
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms written by Peter Reddaway and published by US Institute of Peace Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the birth of the Russian state, focusing on Yeltsin's disastrous policies, which brought on an economic collapse almost twice as severe as America's Great Depression.

Author : Ben Eklof
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253208613
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia's Great Reforms, 1855–1881 written by Ben Eklof and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1994-06-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Reforms undertaken during the reign of Alexander II represented a unique attempt by the tsarist government to restructure virtually every aspect of Russian life, beginning with the emancipation of the serfs and continuing through reforms of local government, the judiciary, the military, education, the financial system, censorship, and other domains. This volume, the work of an international group of scholars that includes historians from Russia, maps out the major landmarks in the conceptualization and implementation of the Great Reforms during the reign of Alexander II and proposes a variety of perspectives from which to view them. -- From publisher's description.

Author : Paul Meyendorff
Publisher : RSM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780881410907
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia, Ritual, and Reform written by Paul Meyendorff and published by RSM Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reform of the liturgical books conducted in Muscovite Russia in the mid-17th century was an alignment of Russina liturgical usage with contemporary Greek practice. Historians have up to now generally accepted the official interpretation of the reform as a correcting made on the basis of ancient Greek and Slavic sources. In fact, the reform was based exclusively on contemporary sources chiefly the 1602 Venice Euchologion (Greek) and 17th century South-Slavic editions from Kiev and Striatin. Far from being a return to sources, or a correction, the reform consisted simply in the uncritical transposition of contemporary Greek practice onto Russian soil.

Author : Marshall I. Goldman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134376847
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Piratization of Russia written by Marshall I. Goldman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-04-10 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1991, a small group of Russians emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union and enjoyed one of the greatest transfers of wealth ever seen, claiming ownership of some of the most valuable petroleum, natural gas and metal deposits in the world. By 1997, five of those individuals were on Forbes Magazine's list of the world's richest billionaires.

Author : Bernard Pares
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia and Reform written by Bernard Pares and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrei Shleifer
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262692694
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Without a Map written by Andrei Shleifer and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A balanced look at Russia's attempts to build capitalism on the ruins of Soviet central planning. Recent commentators on Russia's economic reforms have almost uniformly declared them a disappointing and avoidable--failure. In this book, two American scholars take a new and more balanced look at the country's attempts to build capitalism on the ruins of Soviet central planning. They show how and why the Russian reforms achieved remarkable breakthroughs in some areas but came undone in others. Unlike Eastern European countries such as Poland or the Czech Republic, to which it is often compared, Russia is a federal, ethnically diverse, industrial giant with an economy heavily oriented toward raw materials extraction. The political obstacles it faced in designing reforms were incomparably greater. Shleifer and Treisman tell how Russia's leaders, navigating in uncharted economic terrain, managed to find a path around some of these obstacles. In successful episodes, central reformers devised a strategy to win over some key opponents, while dividing and marginalizing others. Such political tactics made possible the rapid privatization of 14,000 state enterprises in 1992-1994 and the defeat of inflation in 1995. But failure to outmaneuver the new oligarchs and regional governors after 1996 undermined reformers' attempts to collect taxes and clean up the bureaucracy that has stifled business growth.Renewing a strain of analysis that runs from Machiavelli to Hirschman, the authors reach conclusions about political strategies that have important implications for other reformers. They draw on their extensive knowledge of the country and recent experience as advisors to Russian policymakers. Written in an accessible style, the book should appeal to economists, political scientists, policymakers, businesspeople, and all those interested in Russian politics or economics.

Author : Anders Åslund
Publisher : Peterson Institute
ISBN 13 : 0881325376
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia's Capitalist Revolution written by Anders Åslund and published by Peterson Institute. This book was released on 2007 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David J. O'Brien
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801869600
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rural Reform in Post-Soviet Russia written by David J. O'Brien and published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press. This book was released on 2002-03-20 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural Reform in Post-Soviet Russia reviews change in agricultural and rural life since 1990 through historical, political, sociological, and anthropological investigation. The contributors' interest is not so much in agriculture itself but in agrarian issues such as the relationship between rural interests and changing Russian institutions, the economic and social organization of rural households, and the quality of life in rural families and villages.

Author : David Saunders
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317872576
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia in the Age of Reaction and Reform 1801-1881 written by David Saunders and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eagerly awaited study of Russia under Alexander I, Nicholas I and Alexander II -- the Russia of War and Peace and Anna Karenina -- brings the series near to completion. David Saunders examines Russia's failure to adapt to the era of reform and democracy ushered into the rest of Europe by the French Revolution. Why, despite so much effort, did it fail? This is a superb book, both as a portrait of an age and as a piece of sustained historical analysis.

Author : Jeffery Sachs
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rule Of Law And Economic Reform In Russia written by Jeffery Sachs and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1997-06-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines how Russia's distinctive traditions of law-and lawlessness-are shaping the current struggle for economic reform in the country.