Internet Research Materials:

• The Moscow News: Article: Foreign Investment and Corruption
• Center for International Private Enterprise: Lessons from Russian Privatization
• Businessweek Online: Russian Oil Resource Curse
• The Washington Post: Article: Stand Up to Putin
• Time.com: Article: Oligarch Berezovsky

Questions for Seminar Discussions

• What went wrong – if anything – with economic reform in Russia?
• Should Russia have persisted with a ‘shock therapy’ economic reform or not? Why?
• Should economic reform have preceded political reform in Russia?
• What is the importance of the rule of law in the post-communist period? How would you define rule of law in this context?
• What would you have done differently in Boris Yeltsin’s place in economic and institutional reform? In Vladimir Putin’s place?

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