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 Gaidar’s flawed privatization program. Unlike Poland’s privatizations, which spurred the growth of a solid middle class, Russian reforms produced a handful of wealthy oligarchs and a powerful anti-reform backlash.
Privatization and Piratization in Post-Communist Russia
By Yuri N. Maltsev
This article
appeared in
the Winter 2005/06 issue of The Independent Review.
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| Other Independent Review articles by Yuri N. Maltsev | |
| Fall 2017 | Mass Murder and Public Slavery:The Soviet Experience |
| Summer 2008 | Resisting the State:Reform and Retrenchment in Post-Soviet Russia |
| Spring 1996 | Dismantling Utopia:How Information Ended the Soviet Union |
