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Russia in Search of its Future » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of Russia in Search of its Future by Amin Saikal

Authors: Amin Saikal (Editor), Maley
ISBN-13: 9780521483872, ISBN-10: 0521483875
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: December 1994
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Amin Saikal

Book Synopsis

The contributors to this book analyse a Russia which is searching for its future amid a maelstrom of complex forces - political, economic, socio-cultural, and international.

	Preface
	Note on Transliteration
1	Introduction	1
2	Russian Politics in the Time of Troubles: Some Basic Antinomies	12
3	Political Leadership in Post-Communist Russia	28
4	The Shape of the Russian Macroeconomy	48
5	Reforming Russian Agriculture: Privatisation in Comparative Perspective	66
6	Privatisation of Large-Scale Russian Industry	85
7	From Soviet to Russian Foreign Policy	102
8	Russia's Relations With the Former External Empire	123
9	Russia and Central Asia	142
10	Culture in Russia and Russian Culture	158
11	Reconstruction, Deconstruction and the Restoration of Literature in Russia	178
12	Alternative Visions of the Russian Future	190
13	Conclusion: Russia in Search of its Future	207
	Notes on contributors	226
	Index	229