Vladimir Gel’man is a professor of political science and sociology at the European University at St.Petersburg and Finland distinguished professor at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki. Otar Marganiya is the dean of faculty of economics at St. Petersburg State University and the president of the Center for Modernization Studies at the European University at St. Petersburg.Dmitry Travin is the academic director of the Center for Modernization Studies and a professor at the European University at St. Petersburg.

[This book] provides an excellent overview of the political and economic reforms during a crucial fifteen-year period in Russian history . . . Readers will . . . recognize the book's great value in contextualizing the beliefs of the late Soviet and post-Soviet reformers within a broader historical evolution of ideas and experiences. Both experts and students of Russian political economy will learn from this clearly written, empirically rich book.

• PrefaceChapter 1. Turning Points of Russia’s Reforms: Generation Changes and Shifting TrajectoriesChapter 2. The Point of Departure: Late-Soviet Negative ConsensusChapter 3. Perestroika: From Revival to CollapseChapter 4. Post-Soviet Challenges: Difficult Choices During the “Triple Transition”Chapter 5. The Roaring NinetiesChapter 6. Unfree Market Economy under AutocracyBibliography

Vladimir Gel’man is a professor of political science and sociology at the European University at St.Petersburg and Finland distinguished professor at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki. Otar Marganiya is the dean of faculty of economics at St. Petersburg State University and the president of the Center for Modernization Studies at the European University at St. Petersburg.Dmitry Travin is the academic director of the Center for Modernization Studies and a professor at the European University at St. Petersburg.

[This book] provides an excellent overview of the political and economic reforms during a crucial fifteen-year period in Russian history . . . Readers will . . . recognize the book's great value in contextualizing the beliefs of the late Soviet and post-Soviet reformers within a broader historical evolution of ideas and experiences. Both experts and students of Russian political economy will learn from this clearly written, empirically rich book.

• PrefaceChapter 1. Turning Points of Russia’s Reforms: Generation Changes and Shifting TrajectoriesChapter 2. The Point of Departure: Late-Soviet Negative ConsensusChapter 3. Perestroika: From Revival to CollapseChapter 4. Post-Soviet Challenges: Difficult Choices During the “Triple Transition”Chapter 5. The Roaring NinetiesChapter 6. Unfree Market Economy under AutocracyBibliography

Vladimir Gel’man is a professor of political science and sociology at the European University at St.Petersburg and Finland distinguished professor at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki. Otar Marganiya is the dean of faculty of economics at St. Petersburg State University and the president of the Center for Modernization Studies at the European University at St. Petersburg.Dmitry Travin is the academic director of the Center for Modernization Studies and a professor at the European University at St. Petersburg.

[This book] provides an excellent overview of the political and economic reforms during a crucial fifteen-year period in Russian history . . . Readers will . . . recognize the book's great value in contextualizing the beliefs of the late Soviet and post-Soviet reformers within a broader historical evolution of ideas and experiences. Both experts and students of Russian political economy will learn from this clearly written, empirically rich book.

• PrefaceChapter 1. Turning Points of Russia’s Reforms: Generation Changes and Shifting TrajectoriesChapter 2. The Point of Departure: Late-Soviet Negative ConsensusChapter 3. Perestroika: From Revival to CollapseChapter 4. Post-Soviet Challenges: Difficult Choices During the “Triple Transition”Chapter 5. The Roaring NinetiesChapter 6. Unfree Market Economy under AutocracyBibliography