Roy Medvedev, Post-Soviet Russia - A Journey through the Yeltsin Era (Repost)
Roy Medvedev, Post-Soviet Russia - A Journey through the Yeltsin Era
ISBN: 0231106068 | edition 2000 | PDF | 397 pages | 12 mb
ISBN: 0231106068 | edition 2000 | PDF | 397 pages | 12 mb
Russia's best-known contemporary historian comes to grips with his country in the aftermath of Communism, and he doesn't like what's been happening. Medvedev makes no bones about the fact that he thinks the path Yeltsin and the "democratic reformers" have followed these past eight years has been a disaster. He himself would have preferred the Russian government had been less dedicated to privatization and the market economy and bolstering the financial sector and instead had concentrated on rebuilding the country's industrial base and maintaining a favorable balance of trade.