Illustrates why Russian nostalgia for empire is dangerous and ill-fated. This title uses world history, the Soviet experience, and economic analysis to demonstrate why swimming against the tide of history would be a huge mistake.[...]
It is not so easy to take the long view of socioeconomic history when you are participating in a revolution. For that reason, Russian economist Yegor Gaidar put aside an early version of this work to take up a series of government positions--as Minister of Finance and as Boris Yeltsin's acting Prime[...]