Restoration in Russia: Why Capitalism Failed

by Boris Kagarlitsky

It supplies an account of the former Politburo member, Boris Yeltsin - his rise to the presidency and the rifts with his parliamentary opponents, which led to the attack on the Russian White House on October 1993. There are portraits of Gavril Popov, the former mayor of Moscow and Vladimir Zhironovsky, the ultra-nationalist demagogue. The book provides analysis of the new Russia and its attempts to develop modern capitalism.

Genres: Russia, History

176 pages, Paperback

First published July 17, 1995

About the author

Boris Yulyevich Kagarlitsky is a Russian Marxist theoretician and sociologist who has been a political dissident in the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. He is an associate of the Transnational Institute.

Reviews

[Dejan Basic · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice, short, sociological overview of the early years following the disbanding of the USSR. Discusses various aspects of both the ruling elite and the workers, political economy and the gamut of contradictions and catastrophes arising out of the disbanding, and neoliberal reforms