Introduction -- Privatization and transition in Russia in the early 1990s: perspectives -- The mass privatization programme: the ideas, their evolution and their embodiment in law -- Reforming the communist inheritance: 'the goals and limits of privatization' -- Implementation of privatization,...

"'Big data' is now readily available to economic historians, thanks to the digitisation of primary sources, collaborative research linking different data sets, and the publication of databases on the internet. Key economic indicators, such as the consumer price index, can be tracked over long...