invite you to a presentation of the book
"Russia's Capitalist Revolution"
The Russian revolution, collapse of the Soviet Union, and Russia's ensuing
transformation belong to the greatest dramas of our time. Revolutions are
usually messy and emotional affairs, 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.
For more information about the book:
http://bookstore.petersoninstitute.org/book-store/4099.html
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.
*RSVP REQUIRED* To register, please send an email to
infoshopevents@worldbank.org
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.
MODERATED BY
Branko Milanovic
Lead Economist, Development Economics, World Bank
Mr. Milanovic is a lead economist in the World Bank's research department,
where he has been working on the topics of income inequality and globalization.
Previously, he was a World Bank country economist for Poland and a research
fellow at the Institute of Economic Sciences in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Since
1996, Milanovic has also served as a visiting professor teaching the economics
of transition at the Johns Hopkins University's School for Advanced
International Studies. Morevoer, Mr. Milanovic has served as a senior associate
on a two-year assignment with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's
Global Policy Program, and he focused his research on globalization and world
income distribution, as well as the interaction between politics, reform, and
inequality in transition countries.
PRESENTED BY AUTHOR
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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