Post-Soviet Russia: A Journey Through the Yeltsin Era

by Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev

Book Overview

Roy Medvedev, one of the world's best-known Russian scholars and a former consultant to both Gorbachev and Yeltsin analyzes the main events that have transpired in the Russian federation since late August 1991. He looks at the plans that were meant to restructure a society in crisis but--for reasons both complex and obvious--were destined to fail. From the drastic liberalization of prices and "shock therapy" to the privatization of state owned...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231106076
• ISBN13: 9780231106078
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher