The death of the empire. Lessons for modern Russia. Gaidar E.

The book is devoted to the problems that authoritarian regimes faces in polyetonic states, whose economy largely depends on unpredictable fluctuations in prices for fuel and energy resources. This problem is relevant for modern Russia, and the author explains what mistakes made by the Soviet Union should not be repeated. The uniqueness of the book is that Yegor Gaidar first clearly shows how the collectivization policy, which ruined our agriculture, predetermined the accelerated collapse of the Soviet regime, which de facto became bankrupt by that time. What was the real economic situation of outwardly powerful superpower, whether the collapse of the USSR was absolutely inevitable, whether it was possible to dismantle the Soviet system somehow differently and why in Russia the Chinese or Latin American path of transformations was impossible - you will find answers to these questions in the “death of the empire”.