The Collapse of the Empire. Lessons for Modern Russia

The book is dedicated to the problems faced by authoritarian regimes in multi-ethnic states, whose economies largely depend on unpredictable fluctuations in prices for fuel and energy resources. This issue is relevant for modern Russia, and the author explains which mistakes made by the Soviet Union should not be repeated. The uniqueness of the book lies in the fact that Yegor Gaidar for the first time visually demonstrates how the policy of collectivization, which devastated our agriculture, predetermined, in just over sixty years, the accelerated collapse of the Soviet regime, which had de facto become bankrupt by that time. What was the real economic situation of the outwardly powerful superpower, was the collapse of the USSR absolutely inevitable, could the dismantling of the Soviet system have been done differently, and why was a Chinese or Latin American path of transformation impossible in Russia - you will find answers to these questions in "The Collapse of the Empire".