Original sentence: In Russia and other post-Communist states, neoliberal reforms based on the Washington Consensus resulted in a surge in excess mortality and decreasing life expectancy, along with rising economic inequality and poverty
Edited sentence: In Russia and other post-Communist states, these reforms resulted in a surge in excess mortality and decreasing life expectancy, along with rising economic inequality and poverty.Sachs' ideas were applied to the post-communist states in their transition to capitalist systems with very mixed results