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Author: John Williamson
Publisher: Peterson Institute
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 672
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Proceedings of a conference in Vienna in April 1992, cohosted by the Institute and the Austrian National Bank in association with the Russian League of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
Author: Williamson John
Publisher:
Published: 1999-04
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780881321715
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume examines the economic prospects of the republics of the former Soviet Union in the light of the political disintegration that occurred in 1991. It is based on a conference that looked at the possibilities of maintaining a common market and a single currency.
Author: Chris Miller
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2016-10-13
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1469630184
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For half a century the Soviet economy was inefficient but stable. In the late 1980s, to the surprise of nearly everyone, it suddenly collapsed. Why did this happen? And what role did Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's economic reforms play in the country's dissolution? In this groundbreaking study, Chris Miller shows that Gorbachev and his allies tried to learn from the great success story of transitions from socialism to capitalism, Deng Xiaoping's China. Why, then, were efforts to revitalize Soviet socialism so much less successful than in China? Making use of never-before-studied documents from the Soviet politburo and other archives, Miller argues that the difference between the Soviet Union and China--and the ultimate cause of the Soviet collapse--was not economics but politics. The Soviet government was divided by bitter conflict, and Gorbachev, the ostensible Soviet autocrat, was unable to outmaneuver the interest groups that were threatened by his economic reforms. Miller's analysis settles long-standing debates about the politics and economics of perestroika, transforming our understanding of the causes of the Soviet Union's rapid demise.
Author: László Csaba
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 9789637852190
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael Ellman
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-06-14
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 1000881768
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Disintegration of the Soviet Economic System (1992) examines in detail the collapse of the Soviet economic system, and is set in its political context, both international and domestic. The collapse is looked at from a macroeconomic point of view, both real and financial, as well as from a mesoeconomic viewpoint, with chapters on such important sectors such as agriculture and the railways. Because the USSR is such a large country it is also looked at in a regional perspective, with chapters on Central Asia and the allocation of investment between republics, and attention is also paid to the welfare of the population, their health and the development of their consumption, and the environment and technical progress.
Author: Maximilian Spinner
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Published: 2007-08
Total Pages: 41
ISBN-13: 3638757943
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject History Europe - Other Countries - Newer History, European Unification, grade: 1 (A), University of Birmingham (Centre for Russian and East European Studies), course: Graduate Soviet Social and Economic History, 28 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The collapse of the Soviet Union has been one of the most controversially discussed issues among historians and social scientists throughout the last decade. Paradoxically the imminent collapse of communism had been predicted frequently by Western observers during the early years of the Bolshevik rule. With the victory of the Second World War those voices were muted and the West accomodated with the existence of an obviously stable, mighty and economically expanding country.1 The breakdown of communism in 1991 had been anticipated by few contemporary scholars, although the majority were aware of the symptoms of a deep crisis. In this essay I will argue that in order to better understand the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, a central role must be given to the economy and its effects on other areas. Most symptoms of the crisis and the ultimate breakdown of the system can in fact be attributed to the impact of economic failure. Whereas, economic modernization was the motor of success in the early decades, the economy became the weakest link of the Soviet system in the later period as its structural shortcomings deeply effected other areas as well. The first part of this essay is intended to briefly outline the central role the economy played in the development of Soviet socialism. The second part analyses the far-reaching impact of the economic downturn, while the third part discusses the limits of reform before drawing a conclusion.2 1 M Cox, 'Critical Reflections on Soviet Studies', in: M Cox (ed.), Rethinking the Soviet Collapse, L: Pinter, 1998, p 27. 2 The author is aware that in the given scope of this essay only a minor and not necessar
Author: Patrick Bolton
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This paper develops a model of the breakup or unification of nations. In each nation the decision to separate is taken by majority voting. A basic trade-off between the efficiency gains of unification and the costs in terms of loss of control on political decisions is highlighted. The model emphasizes political conflicts over redistribution policies. The main results of the paper are i) when income distributions vary across regions and the efficiency gains from unification are small, separation occurs in equilibrium; and ii) when all factors of production are perfectly mobile, all incentives for separation disappear.
Author: Robert William Davies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780521457705
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Leading scholars in the field analyse the Soviet economy sector by sector to make available, in textbook form, the results of the latest research on Soviet industrialisation.
Author: Marshall I. Goldman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-04-10
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1134376847
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1991, a small group of Russians emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union and enjoyed one of the greatest transfers of wealth ever seen, claiming ownership of some of the most valuable petroleum, natural gas and metal deposits in the world. By 1997, five of those individuals were on Forbes Magazine's list of the world's richest billionaires.
