These lectures by Yegor Gaidar, former Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, and Karl Otto Poehl, former Chairman of the German Bundesbank, provide insight into how these leaders assessed the risk
Russian analysts discuss postcommunist economic transformation.The end of the Cold War saw an unprecedented number of countries changing economic policies at the same time. One result has been the eme
These lectures by Yegor Gaidar, former Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, and Karl Otto Poehl, former Chairman of the German Bundesbank, provide insight into how these leaders assessed the risk
It is not so easy to take the long view of socioeconomic history when you areparticipating in a revolution. For that reason, Russian economist Yegor Gaidar put aside an earlyversion of this work to ta
It is not so easy to take the long view of socioeconomic history when you areparticipating in a revolution. For that reason, Russian economist Yegor Gaidar put aside an earlyversion of this work to ta
"My goal is to show the reader that the Soviet political and economic system was unstable by its very nature. It was just a question of when and how it would collapse...." —From the Introduction to Co
Yegor Gaidar, the first post-Soviet prime minister of Russia and one of the principal architects of its historic transformation to a market economy, here presents his lively account of governing in th
