Lost Opportunity: What Has Made Economic Reform in Russia So Difficult?

by Marshall I. Goldman

A lucid analysis of Russia's titanic struggle to change from a centrally planned economy to a market economy. Combining trenchant commentary with first-person reporting, Marshall I. Goldman provides the clearest picture yet of how Boris Yeltsin took on the task of reforming the Russian economy and what happened along the way. Goldman has added a new chapter for the paperback edition on recent developments.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

304 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1994

About the author

Marshall Goldman was Professor of Economics Emeritus at Wellesley College and Senior Scholar at the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University. An internationally recognized authority on Russian history, politics, and economics, he met with Mikhail Gorbachev and interviewed Vladimir Putin, and advised former President George H.W. Bush and President George W. Bush on Russia. Goldman wrote for publications like Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic Monthly; and appeared on numerous television programs, including The News Hour, Crossfire, Face the Nation, The Today Show, and Nightline.