In The Piratization of Russia: Russian Reform Goes Awry (2003), noted scholar Marshall I. Goldman critically assesses the economic reforms of post-Soviet Russia, focusing closely on Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar’s flawed privatization program. Unlike Poland’s privatizations, which spurred the growth of a solid middle class, Russian reforms produced a handful of wealthy oligarchs and a powerful anti-reform backlash.
Yuri N. Maltsev (1950–2023) was professor of economics at Carthage College.
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Other Independent Review articles by Yuri N. Maltsev
Summer 2022 Revolutionary Monsters: Five Men Who Turned Liberation into Tyranny
Fall 2017 Mass Murder and Public Slavery: The Soviet Experience
Summer 2008 Resisting the State: Reform and Retrenchment in Post-Soviet Russia
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