TY - BOOK AU - Desai, Padma. TI - Conversations on Russia: reform from Yeltsin to Putin SN - 9780195300611 U1 - 338.64700905 PY - 2006/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Privatization KW - Soviet Union KW - Russia (Federation) KW - Economic policy N1 - Reform maximalists -- Boris Yeltsin : the wrecking ball -- Anatoly Chubais : the neo-bolshevik privatizer -- Yegor Gaidar : the shock therapist -- Boris Nemtsov : the political activist -- Mikhail Kasyanov : the pro-market prime minister -- Strobe Talbott : Bill Clintons Russia hand -- Reform gradualists -- Grigory Yavlinsky : the permanent oppositionist -- Sergei Rogov : in search of checks and balances, at home and abroad -- Nodari Simonia : the pro-Putin vote -- George Soros : the active philanthropist -- Policy perspectives -- Sergei Dubinin : monopoly sector reform in progress -- Oleg Vyugin : monetary policy in action -- Boris Jordan : media man and investor -- Anatoly Vishnevsky : demographic dilemmas -- Jack Matlock, jr. : the road ahead -- The role of history -- Martin Malia : history lessons -- Richard Pipes : the past in the present ER -