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Collapse of an Empire Lessons for Modern Russia

By Gaidar , Yegor

Book information

Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
ISBN
9780815731153, 9780815731146, 0815731140, 0815731159
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1704914 bytes)
Pages
354 Seiten\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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""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. . . .""--The Introduction to Collapse of an EmpireThe Soviet Union was an empire in many senses of the word-a vast mix of far-flung regions and accidental citizens by way of conquest or annexation. Typical of such empires, it was built on shaky foundations. That instability made its demise inevitable, asserts Yegor Gaidar, former prime minister of Russia and architect of the "shock therapy" economic reforms of the 1990s. Ye ...

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