Gibel imperii. Uroki dlia sovremennoi Rossii [Death of an Empire. Lessons for Contemporary Russia]

The book is devoted to the problems faced by authoritarian regimes in multi-ethnic states, whose economy is largely dependent on unpredictable fluctuations in prices for fuel and energy resources. This problem is relevant for modern Russia, and the author explains what 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 clearly shows how the policy of collectivization, which ruined our agriculture, predetermined, in a little over sixty years, the accelerated collapse of the Soviet regime, which had become de facto bankrupt by that time. What was the real economic situation of an outwardly powerful superpower, was the collapse of the USSR absolutely inevitable, was it possible to dismantle the Soviet system in some other way, and why the Chinese or Latin American path of transformation was impossible in Russia - you will find answers to these questions in ‘The Death of an Empire’