Download or read book Capitalism Russian-Style written by Thane Gustafson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-18 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capitalism Russian-Style provides a progress report on one of the most important economic experiments going on in the world today: the building of capitalism in Russia. It describes Russian achievements in building private banks, companies, stock exchanges, new laws and law courts. It analyzes the role of the mafia, the new financial empires, entrepreneurs, business tycoons, and the shrinking Russian state. Thane Gustafson tells how the Soviet system was dismantled and the new market society was born, and examines the prospects for a Russian economic miracle in the twenty-first century.