Format:
1 online resource (656 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780700716210
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9781136870583
Content:
Provides full details of the many rapid changes in the Russian economy and the political system since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Covers the period up to 2000, offering a valuable guide to policies in the Putin era
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW -- Part I Economic Developments -- THE TRANSITION TO THE MARKET: INTRODUCTION -- 1 THE TRANSITION FROM COMMAND PLANNING TO THE MARKET -- COMMAND PLANNING IN THE SOVIET ERA -- FROM PLAN TO MARKET -- 2 PRICES -- PRICES IN THE SOVIET ERA -- PRICE LIBERALIZATION IN RUSSIA -- 3 FOREIGN TRADE -- THE SOVIET ERA -- FOREIGN TRADE IN RUSSIA BETWEEN JANUARY 1992 AND THE FINANCIAL CRISIS OF AUGUST 1998 -- 4 DIRECT FOREIGN INVESTMENT -- THE SOVIET ERA -- RUSSIA SINCE 1992 -- 5 THE PRIVATE NON-AGRICULTURAL SECTOR -- THE PRIVATE NON-AGRICULTURAL SECTOR IN THE SOVIET ERA -- PRIVATIZATION IN THE NON-AGRICULTURAL SECTORS OF THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY SINCE 1992 -- 6 AGRICULTURE -- THE SOVIET ERA -- AGRICULTURE IN RUSSIA -- 7 MACROECONOMIC STABILIZATION -- THE SOVIET FINANCIAL SYSTEM -- MACROECONOMIC STABILIZATION BEFORE THE FINANCIAL CRISIS OF AUGUST 1998 -- RUSSIA AND THE ASIAN FINANCIAL CRISIS -- 8 FOREIGN DEBT AND AID BEFORE THE AUGUST 1998 FINANCIAL CRISIS -- FOREIGN DEBT -- FOREIGN AID -- 9 ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE, HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE -- HEALTH -- THE ENVIRONMENT -- Part II Political Developments -- 10 THE DISSOLUTION OF THE SOVIET UNION -- EVENTS PRIOR TO THE 19-21 AUGUST 1991 ABORTIVE COUP -- THE 19-21 AUGUST 1991 ABORTIVE COUP -- THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES (CIS) -- ECONOMIC RELATIONS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE OTHER COUNTRIES OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION (THE 'NEAR ABROAD') -- 11 THE FEDERAL STATE AND THE CHECHEN CRISIS -- THE FEDERAL STATE -- THE PUTIN ERA -- THE CHECHEN WARS -- 12 A CHRONOLOGY OF POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS, 1992-2000 -- A CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS PRIOR TO THE DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT ON 21 SEPTEMBER 1993 -- THE DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT ON 21 SEPTEMBER 1993
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THE SEARCH FOR A NEW CONSTITUTION -- THE GENERAL ELECTION OF 12 DECEMBER 1993 -- DEVELOPMENTS BETWEEN THE DECEMBER 1993 GENERAL ELECTION AND THE DECEMBER 1995 GENERAL ELECTION -- THE GENERAL ELECTION OF 17 DECEMBER 1995 -- The Reelection of Yeltsin as President on 3 July 1996 -- The General Election of 19 December 1999 -- The Resignation of Yeltsin on 31 December 1999 and the Meteoric Rise of Vladimir Putin from Relative Obscurity to President (elected 26 March 2000) -- the Putin Reforms -- 13 MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DISARMAMENT AGREEMENTS, PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE, THE KOSOVO CRISIS AND NATO EXPANSION -- THE ARMED FORCES -- DEFENCE DOCTRINE -- INTERNATIONAL TREATIES AND AGREEMENTS AND NATO EXPANSION -- CONCLUSION -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Jeffries, Ian The New Russia Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2002 ISBN 9780700716210
Language:
English
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