This book examines the failure of economic reform in Russia since 1991, when Boris Yeltsin proclaimed his commitment to … economic stabilization, privatization, and price liberalization. Optimism over Russia¡¯s market reforms vanished with the crash … market-driven one. The Logic of Economic Reform in Russia illuminates the general problems of establishing market economies …

about Russia's economy. Circulated at the highest levels of the Russian and U.S. governments and reported in leading … publications worldwide, their thesis--that Russia's economy is based on illusion or pretense about nearly every important economic … reform policies in Russia. More important, their work has provided a coherent framework for understanding how and why so much …