The Tragedy of Soviet Market Economists - Couverture souple

Rupprecht, Tobias

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1009736981 ISBN 13 : 9781009736985

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Synopsis

In this path-breaking history, Tobias Rupprecht offers a revisionist account of Russia's post-Soviet marketisation from the perspective of the advisors and ministers who oversaw this transformation. Based on extensive interviews with economists and research in state and private archives, he uncovers a significant minority of economic liberals from late Soviet academic and dissident circles who sought to chart a new path, believing free prices and private property were the foundations of a 'civilised country'. This provides a vital challenge to the dominant narrative that neoliberal advisors and organisations imposed harmful reforms on Russia after the collapse of Communism. Liberal reformers faced a profound dilemma – one for which Western advisors had no solution either: should they commit to democratic political activism and risk irrelevance, or align themselves with those in power and be co-opted by an authoritarian state determined to reassert its imperial strength?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tobias Rupprecht is Heisenberg Professor of East European and Global History at Humboldt University of Berlin, and a fellow of the British Royal Historical Society. He is the author of Soviet Internationalism after Stalin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009736981
• ISBN 13: 9781009736985
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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