Volume 1: Transition and Integration | |
Volume 2: Transition and Integration in Newly Independent States | |
The Transition to Market Economies | |
Overview | p. 1 |
The Soviet Economy Unravels: 1985-91 | p. 8 |
The Economies of the CIS: Reformation, Revolution, or Restoration? | p. 34 |
Post-Soviet Economic Reforms in Perspective | p. 57 |
Industrial Growth by Republic in the Former U.S.S.R., 1981-90 | p. 81 |
Regional Economic Disparities, Gorbachev's Policies, and the Disintegration of the Soviet Union | p. 121 |
The New East and Its Preferred Trade Regime - The Impact of Soviet Disintegration | p. 146 |
Who's Feeding Whom? An Analysis of Soviet Interrepublic Trade | p. 163 |
Heritage of the Gorbachev Era | p. 184 |
Russian Fiscal and Monetary Stabilization: A Tough Road Ahead | p. 196 |
Problems of Fiscal Policy Reform During the Transition: A Baltic Case Study | p. 218 |
The Gains from Privatization | p. 240 |
Large-Scale Privatization in the CIS Republics: Some Comparisons with Central Europe | p. 255 |
Measuring the "Private Sector" in Russia | p. 273 |
The Political Economy of Unemployment Benefits and Indexation in the Russian Federation | p. 290 |
Social Security in Transition in the Soviet Union (1985-1991) and in the Russian Federation (1992) | p. 311 |
The Cultural Dimension: Is There a Basis for Free Enterprise? | p. 330 |
Integration into the World Economy | |
Overview | p. 341 |
Prospects for Commerce - A French Perspective | p. 345 |
Prospects for Commerce - A German Perspective | p. 353 |
International Financial Institutions and the Restructuring of the Soviet Successor States | p. 360 |
The Role of Export Credit Agencies in the "New East" | p. 377 |
The External Financial Position of the Former Soviet Union: From Riches to Rags? | p. 389 |
The Soviet-Russian Ruble: The Past, Present and Future of Convertibility | p. 405 |
Ruble Convertibility and External and Internal Equilibrium | p. 422 |
U.S. Commercial Relations with Russia and the Other Successor States: Opportunities and Obstacles | p. 439 |
Key Sectoral Developments | |
Overview | p. 455 |
The Petroleum Resources of Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States | p. 461 |
Republic Energy Sectors and Inter-State Dependencies of the Commonwealth of Independent States and Georgia | p. 477 |
Distribution Problems in the Food Economy of the Former Soviet Union | p. 491 |
Food Availability in the Former Soviet Union: A Summary Report of Three Missions Led by the U.S. Department of Agriculture | p. 506 |
Differences in Food Production and Food Consumption Among the Republics of the Former Soviet Union | p. 514 |
U.S. Agricultural Exports and Assistance to the Former Soviet Union | p. 541 |
The Environmental Implications of the Dissolution of the U.S.S.R. | p. 567 |
Environmental Calamities: Widespread and Costly | p. 577 |
Transport in the Commonwealth of Independent States: An Aging Circulatory System | p. 597 |
Science and Technology in the Former Soviet Union: Capabilities and Needs | p. 610 |
The Post-Soviet Space Program | p. 629 |
Scientific and Technical Collaboration with Former Soviet Countries | p. 648 |
Toward a CIS Protection System for Inventions | p. 665 |
Defense and Conversion | |
Overview | p. 681 |
Russian Military Doctrine: Program for the 1990s and Beyond | p. 686 |
Problems of Downsizing and Dissolution: Russian Defense Policy After the Breakup | p. 704 |
Conversion of Military Industries in the Successor States of the Former Soviet Union | p. 717 |
Defense Conversion in the Former U.S.S.R.: The Challenge Facing Plant Managers | p. 730 |
China's Unheralded Defense Conversion | p. 739 |
Russian Defense Conversion Under Old Management | p. 754 |
Conversion, Regional Economies, and Direct Foreign Investment in Russia | p. 767 |
The Defense Industries of the Newly Independent States of Eurasia | p. 783 |
Human Resources Affecting the Economy | |
Overview | p. 791 |
Demographic Prospects in the Republics of the Former Soviet Union | p. 795 |
A Note on the Emigration of Russia's Technical Intelligentsia | p. 820 |
Continuing Negative Health Trends in the Former U.S.S.R. | p. 840 |
The Health Sector in the Soviet and Russian Economies: From Reform to Fragmentation to Transition | p. 852 |
The Current Conditions and Reform in the Housing Sector of the Former Soviet Union | p. 873 |
Science, Technology, and Education in the Former U.S.S.R. | p. 889 |
Political-Economic Profiles | |
Overview | p. 909 |
Recent Economic Developments in the 15 Former Soviet Republics | p. 913 |
Political-Economic Assessments | |
Russia | p. 950 |
Ukraine | p. 961 |
The Central Asian States | p. 971 |
The Transcaucasus | p. 979 |
Moldova | p. 990 |
Belarus | p. 1003 |
Profiles of the Newly Independent States: Economic, Social, and Demographic Conditions | p. 1019 |
Index | p. 1189 |
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