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The piratization of Russia : Russian reform goes awry
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ISBN: 041531528X 0415315298 1134376855 1280054700 0203563344 0203354729 0429234325 9780203563342 9780415315289 9780415315296 0203344952 9780203344958 9781280054709 9786610054701 6610054703 9780429234323 9781134376858 9781134376803 9781134376841 1134376847 Year: 2003 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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In 1991, a small group of Russians emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union and enjoyed one of the greatest transfers of wealth ever seen, claiming ownership of some of the most valuable petroleum, natural gas and metal deposits in the world. By 1997, five of those individuals were on Forbes Magazine's list of the world's richest billionaires. These self-styled oligarchs were accused of using guile, intimidation and occasionally violence to reap these rewards. Marshall I. Goldman argues against the line that the course adopted by President Yeltsin was the only one open to Russ

Farm to factory : a reinterpretation of the Soviet industrial revolution.
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ISBN: 0691006962 9780691006963 Year: 2003 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.) Princeton university press

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"Robert Allen argues that the USSR was one of the most successful developing economies of the twentieth century. He reaches this provocative conclusion by recalculating national consumption and using economic, demographic, and computer simulation models to address the "what if" questions central to Soviet history. Moreover by comparing Soviet performance not only with advanced but with less developed countries, he provides a meaningful context for its evaluation." "While highlighting the previously under-emphasized achievements of Soviet planning, Farm to Factory also shows, through methodical analysis set in fluid prose, that Stalin's worst excesses - such as the bloody collectivization of agriculture - did little to spur growth. Economic development stagnated after 1970, as vital resources were diverted to the military and as a Soviet leadership lacking in original thought pursued wastefully investments."--BOOK JACKET.

Economic analysis of the Soviet-type system.
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ISBN: 0521207185 9780521207188 Year: 1976 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

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