Collapse of an empire : lessons for modern Russia

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ga?idar, E. T
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press, c2007..
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245 # 1 |a Collapse of an empire :   |b lessons for modern Russia   |c Yegor Gaidar ; translated by Antonina W. Bouis.. 
260 # # |a Washington, D.C:   |b Brookings Institution Press,   |c c2007.. 
300 # # |a xviii, 332 p:   |b ill;   |c 24 cm.. 
504 # # |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-314) and index. 
505 # 0 |a The grandeur and the fall of empires -- Modern economic growth and the era of empires -- Crisis and the dismantling of overseas empires -- Problems of dissolving territorially integrated empires -- The yugoslav tragedy -- Authoritarian regimes: the causes of instability -- Challenges in the early stages of modern economic growth and authoritarianism -- The instability of authoritarian regimes -- Mechanics of the collapse of authoritarianism -- The oil curse -- The Spanish prologue -- Resource wealth and economic development -- Specifics of the oil market -- Regulating the oil market in the twentieth century -- Challenges related to price fluctuations of commodities: Mexico and Venezuela -- In search of a way out: a response to the dangers of unstable commodity pricing -- Cracks in the foundation: the Soviet Union in the early 1980s -- Growing problems and bad decisions -- Food supply problems -- Food shortages-a strategic challenge -- The USSR as the largest importer of food -- Oil in Western Siberia: the illusion of salvation -- A drop in oil prices: the final blow -- The collapse of the USSR: the unexpected becomes the rule -- The political economy of external shocks -- Deteriorating conditions for foreign trade: political alternatives -- The ussr and the dr 
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