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： Collapse of an empire :
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| ISBN： | 9780815731146 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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| ISBN： | 0815731140 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| 编目源： | DLC DLC BTCTA BAKER YDXCP C#P |
| 语种代码： | eng rus |
| 地理区域代码： | e-ru--- e-ur--- |
| 个人名称： | Gaidar, E. T. |
| 题名： | Collapse of an empire : lessons for modern Russia / Yegor Gaidar ; translated by Antonina W. Bouis. |
| 索书号： | K512.6/G137E |
| 出版发行项： | Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2007. |
| 载体形态： | xviii, 332 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| 书目附注： | Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-314) and index. |
| 格式化内容附注： | The grandeur and the fall of empires -- Modern economic growth and the era of empires -- Crisis and the dismantling of overseas empires -- Problems of dissolving territorially integrated empires -- The yugoslav tragedy -- Authoritarian regimes: the causes of instability -- Challenges in the early stages of modern economic growth and authoritarianism -- The instability of authoritarian regimes -- Mechanics of the collapse of authoritarianism -- The oil curse -- The Spanish prologue -- Resource wealth and economic development -- Specifics of the oil market -- Regulating the oil market in the twentieth century -- Challenges related to price fluctuations of commodities: Mexico and Venezuela -- In search of a way out: a response to the dangers of unstable commodity pricing -- Cracks in the foundation: the Soviet Union in the early 1980s -- Growing problems and bad decisions -- Food supply problems -- Food shortages-a strategic challenge -- The USSR as the largest importer of food -- Oil in Western Siberia: the illusion of salvation -- A drop in oil prices: the final blow -- The collapse of the USSR: the unexpected becomes the rule -- The political economy of external shocks -- Deteriorating conditions for foreign trade: political alternatives -- The ussr and the drop in oil prices: the essence of the choice -- A series of mistakes -- Mounting problems in the soviet economy -- The hard currency crisis -- Economic and political liberalization against the background of the hard currency and financial problems -- Development of the crisis of the socialist system -- Political credits -- The price of compromise -- The crisis of the empire and the nationality question -- Loss of control over the economic and political situation -- The currency crisis -- From crisis to catastrophe -- "Extraordinary efforts" instead of reforms -- On the brink of default -- On the path to state bankruptcy -- The grain problem -- Prices skyrocket -- Money and the fate of the empire -- The fall -- The political economy of the failed coup -- Political death throes -- Political disintegration: economic consequences -- A civilized divorce. |