{"product_id":"9780262304382","title":"Russia: A Long View","description":"It is not so easy to take the long view of socioeconomic history when you are participating in a revolution. For that reason, Russian economist Yegor Gaidar put aside an early version of this work to take up a series of government positions--as Minister of Finance and as Boris Yeltsin's acting Prime Minister--in the early 1990s. In government, Gaidar shepherded Russia through its transition to a market economy after years of socialism. Once out of government, Gaidar turned again to his consideration of Russia's economic history and long-term economic and political challenges. This book, revised and updated shortly before his death in 2009, is the result. Gaidar's account of long-term socioeconomic trends puts his country in historical context and outlines problems faced by Russia (and other developing economies) that more developed countries have already encountered: aging population, migration, evolution of the system of social protection, changes in the armed forces, and balancing stability and flexibility in democratic institutions. This is not a memoir, but, Gaidar points out, neither is it \"written from the position of a man who spent his entire life in a research institute.\" Gaidar's \"long view\" is inevitably informed and enriched by his experience in government at a watershed moment in history.","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47102152769776,"sku":"9780262304382","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780262304382_p0.jpg?v=1763681465","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780262304382","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}