Table of Contents: Russia

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Russia a long view /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gaidar, E. T.
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors:	Bouis, Antonina W.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English Russian
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012.
Subjects:	Economic history. Russia (Federation) > Economic conditions. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Click to View

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Modern economic growth
Modern economic growth
Economic determinism and the twentieth-century experience
The general and the particular in modern economic growth
Agrarian societies and capitalism
Traditional agrarian society
A different path
The phenomenon of antiquity
Capitalism and the rise of Europe
The trajectory of Russia's development
Particular features of Russia's economic development
The collapse of an empire
Major issues of the postindustrial world
The post-socialist crisis and recovery growth
The dynamics of population and international migration
The state burden on the economy
The formation and crisis of systems of social safeguards
The evolution of education and healthcare systems
The transformation of the system for manning the armed forces
On the stability and flexibility of political systems
Epilogue
Bibliographical references
Index.