Why "Globalization" Didn't Rescue Russia.

From: Policy Review | Date: February 1, 2001| Author: SAUNDERS, PAUL J. | Copyright information

RUSSIA HAS NOT LIVED up to its hype. After nine years of independence and tens of billions of dollars in international assistance -- not to mention voluminous foreign advice -- Russia is far from having met the expectations of a bright future so widespread in 1991, the time of the fall of communism and the breakup of the Soviet Union. Rather, Russia remains a poor, semi-authoritarian country -- a considerable disappointment.

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