From Alexander II to Gorbachev: The Economic History of Modern Russia

Albrecht Rothacher ()

Chapter Chapter 1 in Putinomics, 2021, pp 1-41 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The economic history of modern Russia is portrayed to understand the mindset and constraints of today’s policymakers and businessmen. The chapter examines the consequences of decades of dysfunctional central planning for Russia’s regional development and its continued state centered approach to the economy. Yet it also reverts back to her Czarist past: the delayed liberation of the serfs, the modernization of agriculture, transportation and education, early industrialization and mass urbanisation. A case study of the trading company Von Wogau and Co illustrates the challenges. The tentative liberalization after 1905 was followed by the war economy, war communism, the New Economic Policies and collectivization. The chapter also covers the Gulag economy, Stalinist war and post-Stalinist post-war economic policies, the reformist failures of Gorbachev and examines the challenges faced by Yeltsin and his young reformers.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-74077-1_1

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