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Werken van Anders Åslund
How Capitalism Was Built: The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia (2007) 32 exemplaren
Russia's Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed (2007) 26 exemplaren
How Latvia Came Through the Financial Crisis (Peterson Institute for International Economics: Special Report) (2011) 10 exemplaren
Russia's challenges as chair of the G-8 3 exemplaren
Pressing the "reset button" on US-Russia relations 3 exemplaren
Eurasian growth paradox 3 exemplaren
The United States Should Establish Permanent Normal Trade Relations With Russia (Policy Analyses in International… (2011) 2 exemplaren
Market Socialism or the Restoration of Capitalism? (International Council for Central and East European Studies) (1991) 1 exemplaar
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That said, is this book still worth your time? Probably yes, as Aslund details the structures that Putin created to bolster his power, and the people he used to help him. There is a particular emphasis on the system of secret off-shore banking that allowed the Russian oligarchs (and Putin is the biggest oligarch of all), to smuggle their wealth overseas.
As for the future, that remains to be the seen. At the time I'm writing this, maybe Russia can still bludgeon its way to a pyrrhic victory in the current war. However, it seems unlikely that Putin's ruling system will long survive him; who knows what social stresses are taking place that made Putin decide that it was "make or break" time.… (meer)