The book uses historical material to examine the most important crossroads in modern Russian history (1921-2009) and shows the circumstances in which they occurred. Each chapter deals with a different period of twentieth-century Russian...

It is not so easy to take the long view of socioeconomic history when you are participating in a revolution. For that reason, Russian economist Yegor Gaidar put aside an early version of this work to take up a series of government...