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Restoration in Russia

Why Capitalism Failed

Boris Kagarlitsky author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Verso Books

Published:17th Jul '95

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This work presents a series of profiles of leading contemporary Russian politicians

Presents a series of profiles of leading contemporary Russian politicians. The book provides up-to-the-minute analysis of the new Russia and its dangerous attempts to develop modern capitalism. It includes accounts of Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Zhironovsky.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.

ISBN: 9781859840726

Dimensions: 218mm x 135mm x 13mm

Weight: 271g

176 pages