RUSSIA S 1990s PRIVATIZATION NIGHTMARE, The Winter Latina Show, Episode 6

Russia s rapid transition from a statecontrolled, command economy within the USSR to neoliberal capitalism of the 1990s with the help of Western advisers was a bona fide nightmare for the general population. At the same time, a small number of oligarchs got rich quickly and often criminally, while Western companies profited. How did it all happen Support: The article we discussed: Harvard Boys Do Russia, The Nation, 1998