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General Transition Theory

  • BALCEROWICZ, L. (1995): Socialism, Capitalism, Transformation. Budapest ; New York: Central European University Press.
  • BALCEROWICZ, L., B. BLASZCZYK, and M. DABROWSKI (1997): "The Polish Way to the Market Economy 1989-1995," in Economies in Transition: Comparing Asia and Europe, ed. by S. Parker, W. T. Woo, and J. D. Sachs. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 131-60.
  • BLANCHARD, O. (1993): Post-Communist Reform: Pain and Progress. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
  • - (1997): The Economics of Post-Communist Transition. Oxford, New York: Clarendon Press ;Oxford University Press.
  • BRABANT, J. M. V. (1998): The Political Economy of Transition: Coming to Grips with History and Methodology. London and New York: Routledge.
  • BOONE, P., S. GOMULKA, P. R. G. LAYARD (1998): Emerging from Communism : Lessons from Russia, China, and Eastern Europe. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
  • BREZINSKI, H., and M. FRITSCH (1997): "The Emergence and Evolution of Markets," Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
  • CLAGUE, C. (1992): "The Journey to a Market Economy," in The Emergence of Market Economies in Eastern Europe, ed. by C. Clague, and G. C. Rausser. Oxford: Blackwell, 1-24.
  • - (1997): "Introduction," in Going Global: Transition from Plan to Market in the World Economy, ed. by P. Desai. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1-94.
  • DINOPOULOS, E., T. D. LANE (1991): Market Liberalization Policies in a Reforming Socialist Economy. Washington, D.C.?: International Monetary Fund Research Dept.
  • DRAZEN, A., and V. GRILLI (1998): "The Benefit of Crises for Economic Reforms," in The Political Economy of Delayed Reform, ed. by F. Sturzennegger, and m. Tommasi. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 127-142.
  • EBRD (1998, 1999): Transition Reports. London: EBRD.
  • GRANVILLE, B., and P. OPPENHEIMER (2001): "Russia's Post-Communist Economy," Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • GREGORY, P. R., and R. C. STUART(1998): Russian and Soviet Economic Performance and Structure. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
  • HOEN, H. (1998): "On the Theory of Economic Transformation," in The Transformation of Economic Systems in Central Europe. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1-21.- (1993): "Transformational Recession: A General Phenomenon Exainend through the Example of Hungary's Development," Economie Appliqué, 46, 181-227.
  • LAVIGNE, M. (1999): The Economics of Transition : From Socialist Economy to Market Economy. New York: St. Martin's Press.
  • SACHS, J. (1997): "Why Russia Has Failed to Stabilize," in Russia's Economic Transformation in the 1990s, ed. by A. Åslund. London: Pinter, 127-136.
  • SHLEIFER, A., and D. TREISMAN (2000): Without a Map : Political Tactics and Economic Reform in Russia. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
  • STURZENEGGER, F., and M. TOMMASI (1998): "Introduction," in The Political Economy of Reform, ed. by F.Sturzenegger, and M. Tommasi. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Political Economy of Reform, 1-33.

Economic Policies: Pre-Revolutionary and Post-Transition Governments

  • ANAN'ICH, B. V. (1983): "The Economic Policy of the Tsarist Government and Enterprise in Russia from the End of the Nineteenth through the Beginning of the Twentieth Century," in Entrepreneurship in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, ed. by G. Guroff, and F. V. Carstenson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 125-139
  • ÅSLUND, A. (1995): How Russia Became a Market Economy. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution
  • - (1997): Russia's Economic Transformation in the 1990s. London ; Washington, D.C.: Pinter
  • BLACKWELL, W. (1970): The Industrialization of Russia: An Historical Perspective. New York: New York University
  • SYLLA, R. and G. TONIOLO (eds.) (1992): Patterns of European Industrialization. London and New York: Routledge
  • DAVIES, R. W., M. HARRISON, and S. G. WHEATCROFT (1994): The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1913-1945. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press
  • GATRELL, P. (1986): The Tsarist Economy, 1850-1917. New York: St Martin's Press
  • GERSCHENKRON, A. (1962): Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
  • HOUGH, J. F. (1988): Opening up the Soviet Economy. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution
  • - (1997): Democratization and Revolution in the Ussr, 1985-1991. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution
  • HUNTER, H., and J. SZYRMER (1992): Faulty Foundations : Soviet Economic Policies, 1928-1940. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
  • KNELL, M. (1996): Economics of Transition: Structural Adjustments and Growth Prospects in Eastern Europe. Cheltenham, UK ; Brookfield, Vt., US: E. Elgar
  • KNELL, M., and C. RIDER (1992): Socialist Economies in Transition : Appraisals of the Market Mechanism. Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt.: E. Elgar
  • NOVE, A. (1992): An Economic History of the Ussr, 1917-1991, 3rd Edition. London: Penguin Books
  • - (1996): "Economics of Transition: Some Gaps and Illusions," in Economics of Transition: Structural Adjustments and Growth Prospects in Eastern Europe, ed. by M. Knell. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 49-69
  • SHLEIFER, A., and R. W. VISHNY (1998): The Grabbing Hand : Government Pathologies and Their Cures. Cambridge, Mass. ; London: Harvard University Press
  • TUGAN-BARANOVSKII, M. I. (1970): The Russian Factory in the 19th Century. Homewood, Ill.,: Published for the American Economic Association by R. D. Irwin (Chapter on Factory Legislation)
  • VONLAUE, T. H. (1963): Sergei Witte and the Industrialization of Russia. New York,: Columbia University Press.

Welfare: Pre- and Post-Transition Dilemmas

  • ALLEN, R. C. (1998): "The Standard of Living in the Soviet Union, 1928-1940," Journal of Economic History, 58, 1063-1091
  • BRAITHWAITE, J., C. GROOTAERT, and B. MILANOVIÂC (2000): Poverty and Social Assistance in Transition Countries. New York: St. Martin's Press
  • CONNOR, W. (1991): The Accidental Proletariat : Workers, Politics, and Crisis in Gorbachev's Russia. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
  • CONNOR, W. D. (1972): Deviance in Soviet Society: Crime, Delinquency, and Alcoholism. New York,: Columbia University Press
  • HUTTON, S., and G. REDMOND (2000): "Poverty in Transition Economies," London and New York: Routledge
  • JONES, A., W. D. CONNOR, and D. E. POWELL (1991): Soviet Social Problems. Boulder: Westview Press
  • LANE, D. (1983): The Quiet Evolution : The Planning, Development, Management, and Provision of Community Services for the Mentally Handicapped. London: Macmillan Press
  • LANE, D. S. (1971): The End of Inequality? Stratification under State Socialism. Harmondsworth, Eng., Baltimore: Penguin Books
  • - (1982): The End of Social Inequality? : Class, Status, and Power under State Socialism. London ; Boston: Allen & Unwin
  • - (1985): Soviet Economy and Society. New York: New York University Press
  • - (1992): Soviet Society under Perestroika. London ; New York: Routledge
  • LEWIN, M. (1985): The Making of the Soviet System : Essays in the Social History of Interwar Russia. New York, N.Y.: Pantheon
  • MCAULEY, A. (1977): Soviet Anti-Poverty Policy 1955-1975. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty
  • MILANOVIC, B. (1998): Income, Inequality, and Poverty During the Transition from Planned to Market Economy. Washington, D.C.: World Bank
  • MILANOVIC, B., and B. JOVANOVIC (1999): "Change in the Perception of the Poverty Line During the Times of Depression: Russia, 1993-1996," Washington, D.C: World Bank, World Bank Research Group.

Rural Market Development: Late Nineteenth-Late Twentieth Centuries

  • ANTSYFEROV, A. N., A. D. BILIMOVICH, M. O. BATSHEV, and D. I. N. IVANTSOV (1930): Russian Agriculture During the War. New Haven,: Yale university press
  • BRADLEY, J. (1985): Muzhik and Muscovite: Urbanization in Late Imperial Russia. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press
  • BROOKS, K. (1990): "Agricultural Reform in the Soviet Union," in Agricultural Development in the Third World, ed. by C. Eicher, and J. Staatz. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 459-479
  • BROOKS, K., and Z. LERMAN (1994): "Land Reform and Farm Restructuring in Russia," Washington, D.C: World Bank Discussion Papers
  • BUSH, K. (1966): "Agricultural Reforms since Khrushchev," in New Directions in the Soviet Economy, ed. by J. E. Committee. Washington, D. D: Government Printing Office
  • CHAYANOV, A. V. (1986): The Theory of Peasant Economy. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press
  • CZAKI, C., and Z. LERMAN (1997): Land Reform in Ukraine: The First Five Years. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank
  • DAVIES, R. W. (1980): The Socialist Offensive : The Collectivisation of Soviet Agriculture, 1929-1930. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press
  • EKLOF, B., J. BUSHNELL, and L. G. ZAKHAROVA (1994): Russia's Great Reforms, 1855-1881. Bloomington: Indiana University Press
  • GREGORY, P. R. (1994): Before Command : An Economic History of Russia from Emancipation to the First Five-Year Plan. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
  • JOHNSON, D. G., and K. M. BROOKS (1983): Prospects for Soviet Agriculture in the 1980s. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press
  • MACEY, D. A. J. (1987): Government and Peasant in Russia, 1861-1906 : The Prehistory of the Stolypin Reforms. Dekalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press
  • MILLAR, J. R. (1971): The Soviet Rural Community; a Symposium. Urbana,: University of Illinois Press
  • PALLOT, J. (1998): Transforming Peasants : Society, State and the Peasantry, 1861-1930 : Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies. Basingstoke, England; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan ; St. Martin's Press
  • LAIRD, R. D. (1963): "Soviet Agricultural and Peasant Affairs," Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press
  • RIEBER, A. J. (1982): Merchants and Entrepreneurs in Imperial Russia. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press
  • SHANIN, T. (1972): The Awkward Class; Political Sociology of Peasantry in a Developing Society: Russia 1910-1925. Oxford,: Clarendon Press
  • WÄDEKIN, K.-E. (1973): The Private Sector in Soviet Agriculture. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press
  • WEGREN, S. K. (1998): Land Reform in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. London ; New York: Routledge
  • WHEATCROFT, S. G. (1991): "Agriculture," in From Tsarism to the New Economic Policy: Continuity and Change in the Economy of the Ussr, ed. by R. W. Davies. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 79-103.
  • VOLIN, L. (1960): "Agricultural Policy of the Soviet Union," Washington, D.C: Joint Economic Committee, 285-318.

Interest Groups and Social Choice: Late Nineteenth-Late Twentieth Centuries

  • ARROW, K. (1951): Social Choice and Individual Values. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press
  • BAHRY, D. (1987): Outside Moscow : Power, Politics, and Budgetary Policy in the Soviet Republics. New York: Columbia University Press
  • BAHRY, D., and J. C. MOSES (1990): Political Implications of Economic Reform in Communist Systems : Communist Dialectic. New York: New York University Press
  • BARZEL, Y. (1989): The Economic Analysis of Property Rights. New York: Cambridge University Press
  • MIRONOV, B. N., and B. EKLOF (1999): A Social History of Imperial Russia, 1700-1917. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press
  • PIPES, R. (1961): The Russian Intelligentsia. New York,: Columbia University Press
  • - (1995): Russia under the Old Regime. New York: Penguin Books
  • PIPES, R. (1961): The Russian Intelligentsia. New York,: Columbia University Press
  • - (1964): The Formation of the Soviet Union; Communism and Nationalism, 1917-1923. Cambridge,: Harvard University Press
  • - (1995): Russia under the Old Regime. New York: Penguin Books
  • - (2001): Communism : A History. New York: The Modern Library
  • WHITEFIELD, S. (1993): Industrial Power and the Soviet State. Oxford ,England, New York: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press
  • - (1993): The New Institutional Architecture of Eastern Europe. New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press.

Technology

  • BALZER, H. (1997): "Dismantling Russia's Technotopia: Six Ministries in Search of an Industrial Policy," in Commercializing High Technology : East and West, ed. by J. B. Sedaitis. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 51-76
  • - (1976): The Innovation Decision in Soviet Industry. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press
  • - (1988): Soviet Industry from Stalin to Gorbachev : Essays on Management and Innovation. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press
  • BOGDANOV, A., L. R. GRAHAM, R. STITES, and C. ROUGLE (1984): Red Star : The First Bolshevik Utopia. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press
  • ELLIS, F. (1999): From Glasnost to the Internet : Russia's New Infosphere. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Macmillan ; St. Martin's Press
  • GRAHAM, L. R. (1967): The Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Communist Party, 1927-1932. Princeton, N.J.,: Princeton University Press
  • - (1972): Science and Philosophy in the Soviet Union. New York,: Knopf
  • - (1987): Science, Philosophy, and Human Behavior in the Soviet Union. New York: Columbia University Press
  • - (1990): Science and the Soviet Social Order. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press
  • - (1998): What Have We Learned About Science and Technology from the Russian Experience? Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press
  • JOSEPHSON, P. R. (1997): New Atlantis Revisited : Akademgorodok, the Siberian City of Science. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
  • KUZNETSOV, Y. (1997): "Learning to Learn: Emerging Patterns of Enterprise Behavior in the Russian Devense Sector, 1992-1995," in Commercializing High Technology : East and West, ed. by J. B. Sedaitis. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 181-204
  • MIRSKAYA, E. (1998): "The Role of International Interactions in Contemporary Science in Russia," Science and Public Policy, 25, 37-45
  • SCANLAN, J. P. (1992): Technology, Culture, and Development : The Experience of the Soviet Model. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe
  • SEDAITIS, J. B. (1997): "Commercializing State-Owned R & D: A Russia-Unitd States Comparison," in Commercializing High Technology : East and West. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 145-166.

Economic  Structures

  • BERGSON, A., and S. KUZNETS (1963): Economic Trends in the Soviet Union. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
  • BERGSON, A., and H. S. LEVINE (1983): The Soviet Economy : Toward the Year 2000. London ; Boston: G. Allen & Unwin
  • KAHAN, A. (1989): Russian Economic History: The Nineteenth Century. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
  • KORNAI, J. (1980): The Economics of Shortage. New York: North Holland.

The Behaviour of Labour: Communist  and Post-Communist Russia

  • BERLINER, J. S. (1957): Factory and Manager in the Ussr. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press
  • BIALER, S. (1986): The Soviet Paradox: External Expansion, Internal Decline. New York: Knopf
  • BONNELL, V. E. (1983): The Russian Worker: Life and Labor under the Tsarist Regime. Berkeley: University of California Press
  • BONNELL, V. E., and G. W. BRESLAUER (2001): Russia in the New Century : Stability or Disorder? Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press
  • BONNELL, V. E., A. COOPER, and G. FREIDIN (1994): Russia at the Barricades : Eyewitness Accounts of the August 1991 Coup. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe
  • CLARKE, S. (1995): Management and Industry in Russia : Formal and Informal Relations in the Period of Transition. Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vermont: E. Elgar
  • - (1996): Conflict and Change in the Russian Industrial Enterprise. Cheltenham , UK ; Brookfield, VT: E. Elgar
  • - (1998): Structural Adjustment without Mass Unemployment? : Lessons from Russia. Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA: E. Elgar
  • - (1999): The Formation of a Labour Market in Russia. Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar
  • CLARKE, S. (1999): New Forms of Employment and Household Survival Strategies in Russia. Coventry, UK: Centre for Comparative Labour Studies University of Warwick
  • CLARKE, S. (1996): Labour Relations in Transition : Wages, Employment and Industrial Conflict in Russia. Cheltenham, UK ; Brookfield, VT: E. Elgar
  • - (1996): The Russian Enterprise in Transition : Case Studies. Cheltenham, UK ; Brookfield, Vt., US: E. Elgar
  • - (1986): Labour and Employment in the USSR. New York: New York University Press
  • - (1987): Soviet Labour and the Ethic of Communism : Full Employment and the Labour Process in the Ussr. Brighton, Sussex, Boulder, Colo.: Wheatsheaf Books ;Westview Press
  • LANE, D. S., and F. A. O'DELL(1978): The Soviet Industrial Worker : Social Class, Education, and Control. New York: St. Martin's Press
  • LANE, D. S., and C. ROSS (1999): The Transition from Communism to Capitalism : Ruling Elites from Gorbachev to Yeltsin. New York: St. Martin's Press.

The Politics of Reform

  • - (1989): Politics, Society, and Nationality inside Gorbachev's Russia. Boulder: Westview Press
  • BIALER, S., T. GUSTAFSON(1982): Russia at the Crossroads : The 26th Congress of the Cpsu. London ; Boston: Allen & Unwin
  • BRESLAUER, G. W. (1991): Dilemmas of Transition : In the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Berkeley, CA: University of California at Berkeley International and Area Studies
  • BROWN, A. (1996): The Gorbachev Factor. Oxford, England ; New York: Oxford University Press
  • GUSTAFSON, T. (1981): Reform in Soviet Politics : Lessons of Recent Policies on Land and Water. Cambridge Eng. ; New York: Cambridge University Press
  • - (1989): Crisis Amid Plenty : The Politics of Soviet Energy under Brezhnev and Gorbachev. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
  • - (1999): Capitalism Russian-Style. Cambridge, England ; New York: Cambridge University Press
  • GUSTAFSON, T., and CAMBRIDGE ENERGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES. (1989): Gorbachev's Dilemmas : Toward a Radical Reform for Soviet Energy? Cambridge, MA (20 University Rd., Cambridge 02138): Cambridge Energy Research Associates
  • GUSTAFSON, T., V. I. ESKIN, and CAMBRIDGE ENERGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES. (1994): Can Russian Gas Compete in the New Century? Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge Energy Research Associates
  • - (1995): The Agony of Russian Oil : Toward a Two-Tiered Price System? Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge Energy Research Associates
  • GUSTAFSON, T. (1982): The Soviet Economy in the 1980s. Santa Monica, Calif.: Rand Corp.
  • GUSTAFSON, T., A. RETEYUM, L. RUSECKAS (1995): The Caspian Sea : Whose Waters? Whose Oil? Cambridge, MA: Cambridge Energy Research Associates
  • GUSTAFSON, T. (1983): The Soviet Gas Campaign : Politics and Policy in Soviet Decision making. Santa Monica, CA.: Rand Corporation
  • GUSTAFSON, T., and UNITED STATES. DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY. (1981): Selling the Russians the Rope? : Soviet Technology Policy and U.S. Export Controls. Santa Monica, Calif.: Rand Corporation
  • KARAMZIN, N. M., and R. PIPES (1959): Karamzin's Memoir on Ancient and Modern Russia. Cambridge,: Harvard University Press
  • LANE, D. (1985): State and Politics in the USSR. New York: New York University Press
  • LAPIDUS, G. W., R. DE NEVERS, L. M. DROBIZHEVA, and STANFORD UNIVERSITY. CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND ARMS CONTROL. (1995): Nationalism, Ethnic Identity and Conflict Management in Russia Today. Stanford, CA: Center for International Security and Arms Control Stanford University
  • LAPIDUS, G. W., and G. E. SWANSON (1988): State and Welfare, USA/Ussr : Contemporary Policy and Practice. Berkeley: Institute of International Studies University of California Berkeley
  • OECD (1998): Review of Agricultural Policies, Russian Federation. Paris
  • OLSON, M. (1992): "The Hidden Path to a Successful Economy," in The Emergence of Market Economies in Eastern Europe, ed. by C. Clague, and G. C. Rausser. Oxford: Blackwell, 55-76
  • REMINGTON, T. F. (1999): Politics in Russia. New York: Longman.ROLAND
  • , G. (2000): Transition and Economics: Politics, Markets, and Firms. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press
  • SCHOONOVER, D. (1979): "Soviet Agricultural Policies," in Soviet Economy in a Time of Change, ed. by Committee of the U. S. Joint Economic Committee. Washington, D.C: Joint Committee, 87-115
  • SCHROEDER, G. (1979): "The Soviet Economy on a Treadmill of 'Reforms'," in Soviet Economy in a Time of Change, ed. by Committee of the U. S. Joint Economic Committee. Washington, D.C: Joint Committee, 312-366.

Private and Public: Corporate Reform (19th and 20th centuries)

  • BLACK, B. S., R. KRAAKMAN, and A. S. TARASSOVA (1998): Guide to the Russian Law on Joint Stock Companies. The Hague: Kluwer Law International
  • BLASI, J. R. (1996): "Corporate Ownership and Corporate Governance in the Russian Federation," Washington, D.C: Federal Commission on the Capital Markets
  • BLASI, J. R., M. KOURMOVA, and D. KRUSE (1997): Kremlin Capitalism: Privatizing the Russian Economy. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press
  • BONNELL, V. E., and T. B. GOLD (2001): The New Entrepreneurs of Europe and Asia : Patterns of Business Development in Russia, Eastern Europe, and China. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe
  • BOYCKO, M., A. SCHLEIFER, and R. VISHNY (1995): Privatizing Russia. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press
  • BRADA, J. (1996): "Privatization Is Transition--or Is It?," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 10
  • BRADA, J. C., I. SINGH (1999): Corporate Governance in Central Eastern Europe : Case Studies of Firms in Transition. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe
  • CARLIN, W., and P. AGHION (1996): "Restructuring Outcomes and the Evolution of Ownership Patterns in Central and Eastern Europe," Economics of Transition, 4, 371-388
  • COMMANDER, S. (1998): Enterprise Restructuring and Unemployment in Models of Transition. Washington, D.C.: World Bank
  • COMMANDER, S., and F. CORICELLI (1995): Unemployment, Restructuring, and the Labor Market in Eastern Europe and Russia. Washington, D.C.: World Bank
  • COMMANDER, S., I. DOLINSKAYA, C. MUMSSEN, and INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND. EUROPEAN II DEPT (2000): Determinants of Barter in Russia : An Empirical Analysis. Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund European II Department
  • COMMANDER, S. (1993): The Behaviour of Russian Firms in 1992 : Evidence from a Survey. Washington, DC: World Bank
  • COMMANDER, S., and C. MUMSSEN (1999): "Understanding Barter in Russia," London: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  • COMMANDER, S., A. TOLSTOPIATENKO (1996): Restructuring and Taxation in Transition Economies. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Economic Development Institute New Products and Outreach Division
  • - (1996): Why Is Unemployment Low in the Former Soviet Union? : Enterprise Restructuring and the Structure of Compensation. Washington, DC: World Bank Policy Research Dept
  • GADDY, C. G., and B. W. ICKES(1998): "Russia's Virtual Economy," Foreign Affairs, 77, 53-67
  • JOHNSON, S., D. KAUFMANN, and A. SHLEIFER (1998): "The Unofficial Economy in Transition," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1997, 159-239
  • DE VECCHI, N. (1995): Entrepreneurs, Institutions and Economic Change. Aldershot: Edward Elgar
  • GUROFF, G., and F. V. CARSTENSON (1983): Entrepreneurship in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union. Princeton: Princeton University Press
  • LEDENEVA, A. V. (1998): Russia's Economy of Favours: Blat, Networking and Informal Exchange. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press
  • OWEN, T. C. (1991): The Corporation under Russian Law, 1800-1917 : A Study in Tsarist Economic Policy. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press
  • - (1995): Russian Corporate Capitalism from Peter the Great to Perestroika. New York: Oxford University Press
  • REIN, M., B. L. FRIEDMAN, and A. WÖRGÖTTER (1997): "Enterprise and Social Benefits after Communism," Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
  • - (1997): "Introduction," in Enterprise and Social Benefits after Communism, ed. by M. Rein, B. L. Friedman, and A. Wörgötter. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-22
  • SHARMA, S. (1997): "Major Issues in Restructuring and Transition in Eastern Europe," in Restructuring Eastern Europe: The Microeconomics of the Transition Process, ed. by S. Sharma. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1-13.

Regions

  • BANAIAN, K. (1999): The Ukrainian Economy since Independence. Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, Mass: Edward Elgar
  • BATER , J. (1976): St Petersburg: Industrialization and Change. New York: Edward Arnold
  • BRADSHAW, M. J. (1991): The Soviet Union : A New Regional Geography? London New York: Belhaven Press ; Halsted Press
  • - (1997): Geography and Transition in the Post-Soviet Republics. Chichester ; New York: Wiley
  • BRADSHAW, M. J. (1993): The Economic Effects of Soviet Dissolution. London: Royal Institute of International Affairs
  • HANSON, P., and M. BRADSHAW (2000): Regional Economic Change in Russia. Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA: E. Elgar
  • HANSON, P., and RUSSIAN AND CIS PROGRAMME (ROYAL INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS). (1994): Regions, Local Power and Economic Change in Russia. London: Russian and CIS Programme Royal Institute of International Affairs
  • IOFFE, G. V., and T. G. NEFEDOVA(1997): Continuity and Change in Rural Russia : A Geographical Perspective. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press
  • KOTKIN, S. (1991): Steeltown, Ussr : Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era. Berkeley: University of California Press
  • KOTKIN, S., and D. WOLFF (1995): Rediscovering Russia in Asia : Siberia and the Russian Far East. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe
  • LAPIDUS, G. W. (1982): Women, Work, and Family in the Soviet Union. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe
  • - (1992): The "Nationality" Question in the Soviet Union. New York: Garland Pub.
  • - (1995): The New Russia : Troubled Transformation. Boulder: Westview Press
  • PIPES, R. (1954): Moslems of Soviet Central Asia: Trends and Prospects. Cambridge,: Center for International Studies Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • SCOTT, J., and S. KOTKIN (1989): Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press.

Trade and Integration

  • COOPER, R. N., and J. GÁCS (1997): "Introduction and Summary," in Trade Growth in Transition Economies: Export Impediments for Central and Eastern Europe. Cheltenham, UK and Laxenburg, Austria: Edward Elgar for IIASA, 1-29
  • - (1997): "Trade Growth in Transition Economies: Export Impediments for Central and Eastern Europe," Cheltenham, UK and Laxenburg, Austria: Edward Elgar for IIASA
  • EICHENGREEN, B., and R. KOHL (1998): "The External Sector, the State and Development in Eastern Europe," London: Centre for Economic Policy Research
  • EICHENGREEN, B. J., and J. A. FRIEDEN (1998): Forging an Integrated Europe. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press
  • GUERRIERI, P. (1993): Trade Integration of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union into the World Economy : A Structuralist Approach. Berkeley, CA: Center for German and European Studies University of California
  • HELMENSTEIN, C. (1999): Capital Markets in Central and Eastern Europe. Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Russian Newspapers and other online resources

  • www.gazeta.ru
  • www.politika.ru
  • www.ekspert.ru
  • RFE/RL List Manager [listmanager@list.rferl.org]
  • RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
  • Ben Aris [benaris@online.ru]
  • Russia Business List
  • David Johnson [davidjohnson@erols.com]
  • Johnson's Listserv 
  • WNC (World News Connection) (Russian Library, St Antony's College)

Statistical Data

  • Russian Statistical Annual (Moscow: Goskomstat)
  • RECEP (2000-1): "Russian Economic Trends," Moscow. (online)
  • Various publications by Goskomstat

Laws

  • Rossiiskaia Gazeta (Russian library, St Antony's College)(online)

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