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| ) | challenging much of the conventional wisdom, and |
| | Russia's experience is no exception. This book |
| | focuses on the transformation from Soviet Russia |
| | to Russia as a market economy, and explores why |
| | the country has failed to transform into a |
| | democracy. It examines the period from 1985, when |
| | Mikhail Gorbachev became the Soviet Union's |
| | Secretary General of the Communist Party, to the |
| | present Russia of Vladimir Putin. Mr. Åslund |
| | provides a broad overview of Russia's economic |
| | change, highlighting the most important issues |
| | and their subsequent resolutions, including |
| | Russia's inability to sort out the ruble zone |
| | during its revolution, several failed coups, and |
| | the financial crash of August 1998. |
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| | For more information about the book: |
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Anders Åslund has done for the collapse of Russian communism what E.
H. Carr did for the Bolshevik Revolution.
Simon Johnson, Director, Research Department, International Monetary
Fund
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building Auditorium J1 - 050
701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
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OPENING REMARKS BY
Pradeep Mitra
Chief Economist, Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank
Mr. Mitra is the World Bank?s Chief Economist for Europe and Central
Asia, a region which includes the countries of Eastern Europe, the
former Soviet Union, and Turkey. He was Chief of Country Operations
for Russia during the mid-nineties and then served as Director in
charge of the Bank?s economists working on poverty reduction,
economic management and public sector institutional reform in the
Europe and Central Asia region. He has published widely in public
economics, macroeconomics and development economics, including
Transition: The First Ten Years, Analysis and Lessons for Eastern
Europe and the former Soviet Union.
PRESENTED BY
Anders Åslund
Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Mr. Åslund, known to repeatedly challenge conventional wisdom on
?transition economies,? is a leading specialist on postcommunist
economic transformation with more than 30 years of experience in the
field. He boldly predicted the fall of the Soviet Union in his
Gorbachev?s Struggle for Economic Reform (1989). In Building
Capitalism: The Transformation of the Former Soviet Bloc (2002) he
firmly stated that the only choice Russia had was market reform. In
this new book, he explains why Russia?s market reform succeeded and
democracy building failed. Before joining the Peterson Institute he
was the director of the Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, and he codirected the Carnegie
Moscow Center?s project on Post-Soviet Economies. Mr. Åslund has
also worked as an economic adviser to the Russian government
(1991?94), to the Ukrainian government, and to the president of the
Kyrgyz Republic. He was founding director of the Stockholm
Institute of Transition Economics and professor at the Stockholm
School of Economics (1989?94).
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