"My goal is to show the reader that the Soviet political and economic system was unstable by its very nature. It was just a question of when and how it would collapse. . . ."?From the Introduction to Collapse of an EmpireThe Soviet Union was an empire in many senses of the word?a vast mix of...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 Modern Economic Growth -- 1. Modern Economic Growth -- 2. Economic Determinism and the Twentieth-Century Experience -- 3. The General and the Particular in Modern Economic Growth -- Part 2 Agrarian Societies...

V novejšej istorii Rossii edva li najdetsja figura, vyzyvajuščaja stolʹko protivorečivych ocenok. Provedennye uže v naši dni sociologičeskie oprosy pokazali otnošenie bolʹšinstva k «otcu rossijskich reform» — ono rezko negativnoe; imja Gajdara do sich por vyzyvaet u mnogich...