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Book Open for Business

Download or read book Open for Business written by Ed A. Hewett and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1991 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—born in violent revolution and dominated for more than six decades by highly authoritarian rule—was dissolved by its constituent republics. The causes for this remarkable event will be probed for many years to come. Our understanding of it may never be complete. Nevertheless, it is evident even now that part of the story lay in a conscious redirection of policy by specific individuals. Those at the center of political and economic power understood the flaws in their system well enough to initiate a process of reform, but one that triggered a more massive transformation than they had intended. The process has left enormous turmoil in this wake. Political power has dissipated in all the new states emerging from the fragmented former USSR, and all are struggling to establish some constitutional order. They do so under conditions of severe austerity as they seed to reconstruct their once integrated, highly concentrated, internationally isolated economy into independent instruments of national viability. With no detailed blueprint available, and with only fractured mechanisms of policy control at their disposal, these new nations are being carried along by the inertia of state enterprises and by a spontaneous process or regeneration at the grass-roots level. This book, which analyzes Gorbachev's foreign economic strategy, provides a window for understanding the disintegrative forces that stymied his reforms and eventually defeated him, undermining the country he sought to preserve. Gorbachev was committed to ending Soviet isolation from the world economy and at the same time saving Soviet socialism. Ironically, it is the destruction of Soviet socialism and the emergence of new post-Soviet states, that has begun to break down the isolationist barriers erected over the last seven decades. This book documents the incredibly complex legacies that Russia and the other new post-Soviet states face as t

Book Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union

Download or read book Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union written by Ludmilla Pashina and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Freight Rate Structure on Soviet Railroads

Download or read book The Freight Rate Structure on Soviet Railroads written by Matthew J. Sagers and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Evaluation of Selected Soviet Population Statistics

Download or read book Evaluation of Selected Soviet Population Statistics written by William Ward Kingkade and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reform of China s Foreign Trade System and Prospects for Freer Trade

Download or read book Reform of China s Foreign Trade System and Prospects for Freer Trade written by Loraine A. West and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Census Catalog and Guide

Download or read book Census Catalog and Guide written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes subject area sections that describe all pertinent census data products available, i.e. "Business--trade and services", "Geography", "Transportation," etc.

Book Dollar GNP Estimates for China

Download or read book Dollar GNP Estimates for China written by Jeffrey R. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book USSR

Download or read book USSR written by William Ward Kingkade and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book USSR

Download or read book USSR written by Misha Belkindas and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Estimates and Projections of the Population of the USSR

Download or read book Estimates and Projections of the Population of the USSR written by William Ward Kingkade and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of a Technical Study Group

Download or read book Report of a Technical Study Group written by United States. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: