Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Slider, Darrell

Titel

The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms: Market Bolshevism Against Democracy. By Peter Reddaway and Dmitri Glinski. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2001. 768p. $55.00 cloth, $29.95 paper

Ist Teil von

• American Political Science Review, 2002-12, Vol.96 (4), p.864-865

Ort / Verlag

New York, USA: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2002

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The fate of Russia's economic and political reforms is the subject of this interpretative history of the last years of the Soviet Union and the Yeltsin period, The book provides a useful, if controversial, introduction to the events of this crucial period in Russian political development, from 1990 to 1999. Special attention is given to the events surrounding important turning points in Russian history; there are particularly detailed treatments of the August 1991 coup, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and Boris Yeltsin's forcible disbanding of the parliament in October 1993. In the end, though, the large number of events the authors seek to analyze is a liability because it tends to detract from and dilute the main argument.