Odom's Russia: A Forum

December 22, 2001 Topic: EconomicsAutocracyCivil SocietyDemocracyNATOEconomic DevelopmentInternational InstitutionsForeign AidHistoryGlobalizationIdeologyGreat PowersMilitary StrategyTradeGlobal GovernanceSecuritySociety Regions: RussiaEurasiaEurope Tags: CaliforniaCold WarFinancial CrisisKyoto ProtocolSocialismCommunismGreenhouse GasFree TradeUndefined

Odom's Russia: A Forum

Mini Teaser: Seven seasoned observers react to William Odom's interpretation of post-Soviet Russian reality, and Odom replies.

by Author(s): Martin MaliaJack Matlock, Jr.Jerry HoughGeoffrey HoskingAlexey PushkovRobert LegvoldHenry TrofimenkoWilliam E. Odom

10 Thomas C. Owen, The Corporation Under Russian Law: 1800-1917 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991). As this account shows, economic development in the last decades of the Russian Empire encountered huge institutional difficulties, but these were obscured by the impressive growth rates of that period.

11 Interview in Argumenty i fakty (July 1998).

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