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Russia's Path from Gorbachev to Putin: The Demise of the Soviet System and the New Russia
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Russia’s Path from Gorbachev
to Putin
This book is a revised and updated version of Revolution from Above: The
demise of the Soviet system , published by Routledge in 1997. Russia’s Path
from Gorbachev to Putin carries the analysis of post-Soviet Russia up to
the present and also makes revisions in the original chapters.
David M. Kotz and Fred Weir challenge the widespread belief that
economic collapse, together with a rejection of socialism by the Soviet
public, led to the Soviet demise. The authors interviewed more than fifty
former Soviet government and Communist Party leaders, policy advisors,
post-Soviet Russian political figures, businessmen, and intellectuals.
This volume finds that the ruling party–state elite of the USSR itself
dismantled the Soviet system, in pursuit of greater wealth and power. It
shows how the attempted transition to democratic capitalism has been
undermined by the policies of immediate liberalization of markets, rapid
privatization of state enterprises, fiscal austerity, monetary stringency,
and a limited state role in managing the transition. The pursuit of these
Western-endorsed policies, known as “shock therapy” or “neoliberalism,”
from the Yeltsin period through the current Putin period, have brought
Russia growing crime and corruption, a distorted economy, and a trend
toward authoritarian government.
Topical issues covered include the origins and nature of the Soviet
System, Gorbachev’s reforms, how Boris Yeltsin was able to outmanoeuvre
Gorbachev and dismantle the Soviet Union, the conflicts and chaos of the
Yeltsin period, and the re-centralization of political power under Putin.
Contrary to the conventional wisdom, it concludes that the Soviet demise
does not mark the end of socialist experiments.
David M. Kotz is Professor of Economics and Research Associate at the
Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts
Amherst, USA.
Fred Weir is Moscow correspondent for the Boston-based Christian
Science Monitor .
Russia’s Path from
Gorbachev to Putin
The demise of the Soviet system and
the new Russia
David M. Kotz and Fred Weir
A revised and updated version of Revolution from
Above: The demise of the Soviet system , Routledge, 1997.
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First published 2007
by Routledge
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© 2007 David M. Kotz and Fred Weir
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2007.
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ISBN 0 - 203 - 79936 - 4 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN10: 0–415–70146–4 (hbk)
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ISBN10: 0–203–79936–4 (ebk)
ISBN13: 978–0–415–70146–4 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978–0–415–70147–1 (pbk)
ISBN13: 978–0–203–79936–9 (ebk)

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