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A Fistful of Rubles : The Rise and Fall of the Russian Banking System /

After the breakup of the USSR, it briefly appeared as though Russia's emerging commercial banks might act as engines of growth for a new capitalist economy. However, despite more than a decade of "reforms," Russia's financial system collapsed in 1998. Why had ambitious efforts to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johnson, Juliet Ellen, 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2000.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The politics of money
  • The political origins of Russia's banks
  • The Central Bank of Russia
  • Shock therapy meets Soviet bankers
  • For a few rubles more : banking in Russia's regions
  • Russia's financial-industrial "oligarchy"
  • The crash of 1998
  • The end of the beginning.