Die schwere wirtschaftliche und politische Krise Rußlands läßt Zweifel an der Reformfähigkeit dieses Landes aufkommen. Welche Fehler wurden beim Übergang von der Planwirtschaft in die Marktwirtschaft gemacht? In welchem Umfang ist die Krise politisch bedingt? Wie sind die Reformchancen?

Seventy years after the Bolshevik Revolution the Soviet Union is to embark on a new economic path which, according to Mikhail Gorbachev, will again call for revolutionary measures. What form will these measures take? What obstacles stand in the way of the planned reforms? What are their chances...

The increasing gap between the transition countries with regard to both their economic and political performance cannot be explained by their different starting conditions after the breakdown of the Soviet Union alone. Rather, it is due to cultural and historical circumstances that shape the...