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Author Aven, P. O. (Petr Olegovich), author.
Авен, П. О. (Петр Олегович), author

Title Gaidar's revolution : the inside account of the economic transformation of Russia / Petr Aven & Alfred Kokh
Edition New edition
Published London : I.B. Tauris, 2015
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xliii, 428 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits
Contents Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword by Leszek Balcerowicz; From the Authors; A Book Written Under Duress; 1. Gennady Burbulis: "Yeltsin Served Us!"; Yeltsin: Together and Nearby; The Appearance of Gaidar; Démarches and Resignations; The Disintegration of the USSR; About Gaidar; 2. Anatoly Chubais: "We Destroyed the People's Idea of Justice with Voucher Privatization"; Muscovites and St Petersburgians; The Inevitability of Change; With Yeltsin or Without; A Complicated Choice; Reforms and the Collapse of the USSR; October 1993
We Never Fought in Thirty Years3. Alexander Shokhin: "We Took as Much Power as We Could"; How Many Programs Were There?; Recollections About the Candidates; The Kamikaze Government; The Election of the Premier; Between Gaidar and Chernomyrdin; Farewell to Gaidar; Wine, Yeltsin, and the Stillborn Coalition; Good Premier; 4. Andrei Nechayev: "It's Indecent to Blame the Former Regime for Everything"; The Status of the Country; Hunger and Cold; Concerning Money; Separatism; Working with Gaidar; When Things Settled Down; On Mistakes; Back to Gaidar; Present Day
5. Vladimir Lopukhin: "That Was the Bone-Breaking Machine"Why Gaidar?; Price Liberalization; Lukoil, Yukos, Surgutneftegaz; Work and Dismissal; A Change of Elites; An Extremely Decent Man; Crazy Tempo; 6. Stanislav Anisimov: "It Was a Nightmare"; Foreign Practices of the USSR; Academician Velikhov and Copper Export; How the System Broke Down; "There Would Have Been Hunger"; Attempts to Keep the Union; Young Reformers; "Putin Practically Committed Crimes"; Could the Union Have Been Saved?; 7. Vladimir Mashchits: "We Were Like the Bourgeois Specialists of the Civil War Period."
Revolution Is an ImpulseWhy Gaidar?; Public Politics; The Collapse of the Union; The Gaidar Team as Military Specialists; 8. Andrei Kozyrev: A Bona Fide "Kamikaze"; At the Soviet Foreign Ministry; The Russian Foreign Ministry; Change of Course; The Attitude of the West; Humanitarian Aid; Internal Contradictions; Hot Spots; CIS and NATO; Resignation; 9. Sergei Shakhrai: "Those Events Made Yeltsin More Isolated, Angry, and Vindictive"; Parliament Work; The Yeltsin Team; The Putsch of 1991; The Collapse of the USSR; The Belovezh Accords; About the Government; Gaidar and Yeltsin
10. Pavel Grachev: "I, the Defense Minister, Did Not Allow the Army to Break Up"Service Before 1991 and the GKChP Putsch; Ministerial Rank; Relations with NATO; Dismissal and Afterward; On Gaidar's Government; The Chechen Campaign; The Army and the Putsch of 1993; 11. James Baker: "You Still Have Not Built a Free Market Economy"; 12. Yegor Gaidar: "I Made a Bad Public Politician"; First Conversation: On the Resignation; Second Conversation: On Morality and Effectiveness in Politics; Third Conversation: On War; Fourth Conversation: On Privatization; 13. What We Learned; 14. Conclusion
Notes Originally published: United States : The Gaidar Foundation, 2013
Includes index
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Subject 880-02 Gaĭdar, E. T. (Egor Timurovich)
SUBJECT 880-02/(N Гайдар, Е. Т. (Егор Тимурович)
Gaĭdar, E. T. (Egor Timurovich) fast
Subject BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
Economic policy
Politics and government
SUBJECT Russia (Federation) -- Economic policy -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92004892
Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006576
Subject Russia (Federation)
Form Electronic book
Author Kokh, Alʹfred, author
ISBN 9780857739582
0857739581
Other Titles Revoli︠u︡t︠s︡ii︠a︡ Gaĭdara. English