Lost Opportunity What Has Made Economic Reform in Russia So Difficult [Paperback]

Combining trenchant commentary with first-person reporting, Marshall I. Goldman provides the clearest picture yet of how Boris Yeltsin took on the task of reforming the Russian economy and what happened along the way. Goldman has added a new chapter for the paperback edition on recent developments.A lively and highly readable account.[Goldman] draw[s] on his vast knowledge to provide some insights into why reform is so difficult in the Russian context and why some of the efforts of recent years have gone awry.A lucid analysis of Russia's titanic struggle to change from a centrally planned economy to a market economy.