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Russia's Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed by Anders Âslund. Washington, DC: Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2007. (356 pages; paper)
This book comes at a critical time in Russia's history. As Russia makes rather significant strides towards free market capitalism, it is simultaneously struggling to embrace the democratic ideal that historically has gone hand-inhand with capitalist markets.
Âslund is uniquely qualified to author this extraordinary book due to his unique academic background. He has studied Russia for over 35 years, along the way earning his doctorate from the University of Oxford, serving as the Director of Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and working for the last three years at the Peterson Institute for International Economics as a senior fellow. It is, however, his service as an economic advisor...