In The Piratization of Russia: Russian Reform Goes Awry (2003), noted scholar Marshall I. Goldman critically assesses the economic reforms of post-Soviet Russia, focusing closely on Prime Minister Yegor Gaidars flawed privatization program. Unlike Polands privatizations, which spurred the growth of a solid middle class, Russian reforms produced a handful of wealthy oligarchs and a powerful anti-reform backlash.
Other Independent Review articles by Yuri N. Maltsev | ||
Fall 2017 | Mass Murder and Public Slavery | |
Summer 2008 | Resisting the State | |
Spring 1996 | Dismantling Utopia |