Description
Book SynopsisFocuses on comparing attitudes toward private property and the persistence of Eastern forms of land ownership. This work presents an analysis of Western development that offers a perspective on private ownership of property in relation to government ownership that explains a about the evolution of socioeconomic and political systems East and West.
Trade Review"State and Evolution comes as a timely comment on Putin's Russia even though Yegor Gaidar first published his book in 1994..His short but powerful book appears now in an excellent English translation by Jane Ann Miller, and it should be read both to remind ourselves what a clever and funny writer Gaidar can be, and to observe how few of the questions and doubts he raised almost a decade ago have been resolved satisfactorily since."
* New York Review of Books *
"Gaidar writes with a breathtakingly sweeping and occasionally poetic style that has been artfully translated by Jane Ann Miller..The core issues Gaidar raises on the precarious nature of the state-market relationship in Russia are at the center of curren Russian politics, and deserve the considerable attention of anyone concerned with that nation and its role in the world. This book is a fine place to get started with that study."
* The Russian Review *
Table of ContentsPreface to the English-Language Edition
1. Two Civilizations
2. A Catch-up Civilization
3. The Three Sources and Three Components of Bolshevism
4. Property, the Nomenklatura, and Nomenklatura Property
5. Primitive Capital Accumulation
6. The Choice
Notes
Bibliography
Index
