The Selling of the Soviet Empire
Subtitle: Politics & Economics of Russia's Privatization-Revelations of the Principal Insider
Publisher: S.P.I. Books
Published: December 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781561719846
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Political economy; Privatization; Post-communism; History: World; Contemporary Politics - Former Soviet Republics; Russia (Federation); Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Russia; International Relations - General; Development - Economic Development; History & Theory - General; Economic aspects; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Economic conversion
First sentence: Of course a certain kind of privatization had been going on for years during the Gorbachev era-spontaneously, microscopically, legally, as the mom-and-pop sidewalk concerns of everyday life were allowed to be de facto privatized, that is, taken over by the individuals who were running them.