Crossroads in Modern Russian History.

Translated by Antonina W. Bouis.

Translated by Antonina W. Bouis By (author) Yegor Gaidar By (author) Anatoly Chubais

Book cover: Crossroads in Modern Russian History.

Extent: 106 pages

Publisher: Duncker & Humblot

Subjects: Business & Economics, Slavic Studies

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(February 2016)

ISBN: 9783428148530

6.18 x 9.17 inches

Price: $63.00

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The book uses historical material to examine the
most important crossroads in modern Russian history (1921–2009) and shows the
circumstances in which they occurred.

Each chapter deals with a different period of twentieth-century Russian history. The
book gives clear and simple explanations of the decisions taken in those fateful
years, describing which crossroads in history required decisions and what limitations
and obstacles forced the authors to act in one way rather than another. Yegor Gaidar
and Anatoly Chubais are not historians, they are the people who elaborated and made
the decisions so crucial for Russia in the 1990s and who took all responsibility for
the consequences.

Based on historical material, the book examines the most important crossroads of
Russian history in the period 1929–2009, showing the circumstances that gave rise to
them – the choice of political decisions and the consequences, including new
institutions. The result of the political decisions made in the late 1920s and early
1930s was the Soviet centrally planned economy; its growing crisis led to the
crossroads of the 1990s. The decisions of 1992–1993 led to the creation of the market
economy in Russia, a new stage in the country’s development.

Yevgeny Yasin
Eyewitness to History

Anatoly Chubais
From the Author

Introduction

1928–1984

1985–1991

1992–1993

1994–1996

1996–2000

2000–2008

Crossroads of Our Times

  • Translated by Antonina W. Bouis
  • By (author) Yegor Gaidar
  • By (author) Anatoly Chubais