WEEK 14: Russia's colossal mess, revisited

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TUESDAY (12/4)
IN CLASS:

Guest Lecture: David Woodruff; What went wrong in Russia?

THURSDAY (12/6)
IN CLASS:

Class Debate: What went wrong in Russia?

READINGS FOR WEEK 14
  • Grigory Yavlinsky, "Russia's Phony Capitalism," Foreign Affairs, May/June 1998.

  • Peter Ordeshook, "Institutions and Incentives," Journal of Democracy 6,2 (April 1995): 45-60.

  • Contributions to Journal of Democracy 10,2 (April 1999): "What Went Wrong in Russia?" (p.4-90).

  • David Woodruff, Money Unmade: Barter and the Fate or Russian Capitalism, selections TBA.

Web Links:

From top to bottom: Former U.S. president Clinton and Former Russian president Yeltsin; a view of the kremlin, Mikhail Gorbechev; figurines of former soviet and russian leader from the last czar to Yeltsin.

 

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