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TNDemo
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Fri Jul-18-08 10:11 PM Original message |
What happened to Russia in the 1990s that caused their economic collapse |
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elleng
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Fri Jul-18-08 10:19 PM Response to Original message |
1. They didn't have an economy, |
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IrateCitizen
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Tue Jul-22-08 04:09 PM Response to Reply #1 |
21. Are western economies so "developed"? |
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Hannah Bell
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Wed Jul-23-08 06:05 PM Response to Reply #1 |
25. Yeah, they didn't have an economy. That's why poverty skyrocketed after the transition, & life |
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madeline_con
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Fri Jul-18-08 10:25 PM Response to Original message |
2. Some random links to get you started... |
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TNDemo
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Sat Jul-19-08 07:59 AM Response to Reply #2 |
9. Wow - that was very interesting. |
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napoleon_in_rags
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Tue Jul-22-08 07:58 PM Response to Reply #9 |
24. I've looked into this as well. Look at the second school from the Vladimir Treml paper. |
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SharonAnn
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Fri Jul-18-08 10:26 PM Response to Original message |
3. Crony capitalism. And there are some similarities to here. |
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sam sarrha
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Fri Jul-18-08 10:40 PM Response to Original message |
4. horizontal filing ... burgeoning bureaucracy,, we led them into financial ruin with a fake cold war |
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A HERETIC I AM
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Sat Jul-19-08 09:27 AM Response to Reply #4 |
12. "Fake cold war"? |
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PDJane
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Fri Jul-18-08 10:54 PM Response to Original message |
5. And then, |
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TNDemo
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Sat Jul-19-08 07:45 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. I read about half of Shock Doctrine |
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Pale Blue Dot
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Sat Jul-19-08 08:29 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. The last part of the book is about Russia. |
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Dan
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Fri Jul-18-08 11:40 PM Response to Original message |
6. Afghanistan |
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lakeguy
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Sat Jul-19-08 12:34 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. and the saudis flooding the market with oil |
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bluerum
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Tue Jul-22-08 07:47 PM Response to Reply #6 |
22. I agree. What little economy they had was broken on occupying Afghanistan. |
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HamdenRice
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Sat Jul-19-08 08:25 AM Response to Original message |
10. The problems of the S.U. then and U.S. now were very, very similar |
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Art_from_Ark
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Mon Jul-21-08 11:38 PM Response to Reply #10 |
18. They had people lining up at state stores |
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bluerum
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Tue Jul-22-08 07:49 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. It didn't help that Stalin murdered all the farmers and agricultural workers either. |
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Warpy
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Sat Jul-19-08 09:29 AM Response to Original message |
13. I always think it was that platoon of Harvard MBAs we sent in |
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Doctor Cynic
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Sat Jul-19-08 03:14 PM Response to Original message |
14. They should have allowed Russians to build up a new kind of capitalism |
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Dover
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Sun Jul-20-08 07:39 PM Response to Original message |
15. Seems to be a popular question |
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Dover
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Sun Jul-20-08 07:43 PM Response to Original message |
16. This collapse is unique in that central banks around the world hold |
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leftofthedial
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Mon Jul-21-08 02:02 AM Response to Original message |
17. they invaded and occupied Afghanistan |
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Jemmons
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Tue Jul-22-08 12:18 AM Response to Original message |
19. Dmitry Orlov has made some detailed analysis of the USSR vs USA economic collapse |
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IrateCitizen
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Tue Jul-22-08 04:07 PM Response to Original message |
20. Jeffrey Sachs. |
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Hannah Bell
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Wed Jul-23-08 06:07 PM Response to Original message |
26. They were taken down by folks who wanted their assets. |
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