TY - BOOK ID - 18189737 TI - Conversations on Russia : reform from Yeltsin to Putin PY - 2006 SN - 0195300610 9780195300611 0199850755 1429402997 1280846178 0195345819 0190293713 PB - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Privatization KW - Russia (Federation) KW - Soviet Union KW - Economic policy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:18189737 AB - Much of the discussion of Russia's recent post-Communist history has amounted, both in Russia and the West, to a series of monologues by strong-minded people with starkly divergent views. In contrast, Padma Desai's conversations with influential, intelligent participants and observers providethe reader with a broad, nuanced view of what has and has not happened in the last fourteen years, and why. Conversations from Russia will thus serve as a much-needed reference volume, both for academics who study Russia and for laypeople who only have vague perceptions of what has occurred inRussia since ER -