Russia's Economic Transitions: From Late Tsarism to the New Millennium - Softcover

Spulber, Nicolas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521024587 ISBN 13: 9780521024587

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

This book is concerned with Russia's economic transition from a predominantly feudal economy to a capitalist economy; from an economy based on private ownership, to one based exclusively on state ownership, and finally, from the latter back to private ownership and market-directed relations. These transitions have generated much thought not only in economics, but in history, political science and sociology. Current research in economic transition is commanding great interest; as it reviews methods and outcomes of privatization, along with a variety of problems in economic growth, industrial organization, public economics, international finance and monetary economics.

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Book Description:

This book is concerned with Russia's economic transition from a predominantly feudal economy to a capitalist economy, then from an economy based on private ownership to one based exclusively on state ownership, and finally, from the latter back to private ownership and market-directed relations. These transitions have generated much thought not only in economics, but also in history, political science, and sociology. Current research in economic transition, including methods and outcomes of privatization along with a variety of problems in economic growth, industrial organization, public economics, international finance, and monetary economics, are commanding great interest.

Review:

"The author traces Russia's three major transformations between the early 1860s and 2000: the partial breakup of the feudal system under tsarism; the system of state ownership after 1917; and the basics of private ownership beginning in the early 1990s." Business Horizons

"The book is a massive undertaking, covering almost two centuries. Spulber is attempting to look at the three major transitions of Russian economic history--the decision to `modernize' after the Crimean War, the Soviet industrialization drive and ensuing modernization of the Soviet Union, and the Russian transition after 1991. It is a monumental scholarly effort. No one else has tried such a project, so it will stand alone." Paul R. Gregory, University of Houston, Texas

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521024587
• ISBN 13: 9780521024587
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448