The economics of Russian transition

Foreword: The Russian Path from Communism Reconsidered / Stanley Fischer

Introduction: Economic Reforms and Revolution / Vladimir Mau

I. Preconditions for the Postcommunist Transformation

1. Inevitability of Collapse of the Socialist Economy / Yegor Gaidar

2. Logic and Nature of the Soviet Economic Crisis / Vladimir Mau

3. Liberal Market Reform Program / Sergei Sinelnikov-Murylev and Alexei Uluykaev

II. Macroeconomic Processes and Economic Policy of Postcommunist Russia - Main Stages

4. General Macroeconomic Problems of the Postsocialist Transition in Russia / Sergei Sinelnikov-Murylev and Georgy Trofimov

5. Macroeconomic Stabilization as a Sociopolitical Problem / Vladimir Mau

6. Problems of Macroeconomic Stabilization at the Stage of Economic Liberalization (1992) / Sergei Sinelnikov-Murylev and Georgy Trofimov

7. Formation of the Preconditions for Financial Stabilization / Sergei Sinelnikov-Murylev and Georgy Trofimov

8. Financial Stabilization in Russia / Vladimir Mau, Sergei Sinelnikov-Murylev and Georgy Trofimov

9. Macroeconomic Stabilization and the Political Process: The Year of the Presidential Elections / Vladimir Mau, Sergei Sinelnikov-Murylev and Georgy Trofimov

10. Macroeconomic Stabilization and Fiscal Crisis / Sergei Arkhipov, Said Batkibekov, Sergei Drobyshevsky, Vladimir Mau, Sergei Sinelnikov-Murylev and Alexei Uluykaev

11. Crisis of the Russian Financial System: Key Factors, Economic Policies, and Initial Results / Sergei Arkhipov, Said Batkibekov, Sergei Drobyshevsky, Tatiana Drobyshevskaia, Vladimir Mau, Sergei Sinelnikov-Murylev and Ilya Trounin

12. Financial Policy in 1999 / Sergei Arkhipov, Said Batkibekov, Tatiana Drobyshevskaia, Sergei Drobyshevsky, Olga Izryadnova, Sergei Sinelnikov-Murylev and Ilya Trounin

13. Fallout of Russia's Financial Crisis on Its Neighbors / Marek Dabrowski

III. Institutional Reforms in the Russian Economy

14. Privatization, Ownership Redistribution, and Formation of the Institutional Basis for Economic Reforms / Alexander Radygin

15. Main Corporate Governance Mechanisms and Their Specific Features in Russia / Alexander Radygin and Natalia Shmeleva

16. Russian Banks in the Transition Period / Igor Doronin and Alexander Zakharov

17. Institutional Reforms in the Agro-Industrial Complex / Natalia Karlova, Irina Khramova, Eugenia Serova and Tatiana Tikhonova

18. Institutional Reforms in the Sociocultural Sphere / Irina Rozhdestvenskaya and Sergei Shishkin

19. Reform in Housing and Public Utilities / Irina Starodubrovskaya

IV. Real Sector of the Economy: Adaptation Problems

20. General Trends in the Real Sector in the Reform Period / Evgeni Gavrilenkov and Olga Izryadnova

21. Development Specifics of Real Sector Industries / Yuri Bobylev and Eugenia Serova

22. International Business in the Period of Market Reforms / Natalia Leonova, Sergei Prikhodko and Nadezhda Volovik

V. Social Price of Reforms

23. Certain Trends in the Evolution of the Labor Market / Alexander Smirnov

24. Household Income in the Period of Economic Reforms / Igor Kolosnytsyn

VI. Economic Reform and Public Opinion Dynamics

25. Key Trends in the Population's Attitudes Toward Market Reforms / Tatiana Koval

26. Some Conclusions / Yuri Bobylev, Revold Entov, Olga Izryadnova, Vladimir Mau, Sergei Prikhodko, Alexander Radygin, Eugenia Serova, Sergei Sinelnikov-Murylev and Sergei Tsukhlo

App. I. Modeling Inflation Dynamics, 1992 Through 1998 / Sergei Drobyshevsky

App. II. Arrears: A Macroeconomic Analysis / Oleg Lugovoy

App. III. Modeling Tax Revenues and the Tax Liabilities of Russian Taxpayers, 1992 Through 1998 / Pavel Kadotchnikov and Sergei Sinelnikov-Murylev

App. IV. Monetary Policy and the Expectations Hypothesis on the Russian Government Bond Market / Sergei Drobyshevsky

App. V. Leading Indicators of the Russian Currency Crisis in August 1998 / Sergei Drobyshevsky

Statistical Appendix.