Gaidar's Revolution by Aven, Petr -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Front Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Illustrations Foreword by Leszek Balcerowicz From the Authors A Book Written Under Duress 1. Gennady Burbulis: “Yeltsin Served Us!”

Yeltsin: Together and Nearby The Appearance of Gaidar Démarches and Resignations The Disintegration of the USSR About Gaidar

Muscovites and St Petersburgians The Inevitability of Change With Yeltsin or Without A Complicated Choice Reforms and the Collapse of the USSR October 1993 We Never Fought in Thirty Years

3. Alexander Shokhin: “We Took as Much Power as We Could”

How Many Programs Were There? Recollections About the Candidates The Kamikaze Government The Election of the Premier Between Gaidar and Chernomyrdin Farewell to Gaidar Wine, Yeltsin, and the Stillborn Coalition Good Premier

4. Andrei Nechayev: “It’s Indecent to Blame the Former Regime for Everything”

The Status of the Country Hunger and Cold Concerning Money Separatism Working with Gaidar When Things Settled Down On Mistakes Back to Gaidar Present Day

5. Vladimir Lopukhin: “That Was the Bone-Breaking Machine”

Why Gaidar? Price Liberalization Lukoil, Yukos, Surgutneftegaz Work and Dismissal A Change of Elites An Extremely Decent Man Crazy Tempo

6. Stanislav Anisimov: “It Was a Nightmare”

Foreign Practices of the USSR Academician Velikhov and Copper Export How the System Broke Down “There Would Have Been Hunger” Attempts to Keep the Union Young Reformers “Putin Practically Committed Crimes” Could the Union Have Been Saved?

Revolution Is an Impulse Why Gaidar? Public Politics The Collapse of the Union The Gaidar Team as Military Specialists

8. Andrei Kozyrev: A Bona Fide “Kamikaze”

At the Soviet Foreign Ministry The Russian Foreign Ministry Change of Course The Attitude of the West Humanitarian Aid Internal Contradictions Hot Spots CIS and NATO Resignation

9. Sergei Shakhrai: “Those Events Made Yeltsin More Isolated, Angry, and Vindictive”

Parliament Work The Yeltsin Team The Putsch of 1991 The Collapse of the USSR The Belovezh Accords About the Government Gaidar and Yeltsin

10. Pavel Grachev: “I, the Defense Minister, Did Not Allow the Army to Break Up”

Service Before 1991 and the GKChP Putsch Ministerial Rank Relations with NATO Dismissal and Afterward On Gaidar’s Government The Chechen Campaign The Army and the Putsch of 1993

11. James Baker: “You Still Have Not Built a Free Market Economy” 12. Yegor Gaidar: “I Made a Bad Public Politician”

First Conversation: On the Resignation Second Conversation: On Morality and Effectiveness in Politics Third Conversation: On War Fourth Conversation: On Privatization

13. What We Learned 14. Conclusion 15. Afterword by Carl Bildt Appendix: Biographical Listing Notes Back Cover