... eventual ousting of Gorbachev. Clearly, revolutionary changes were required to force the abandonment of planned economy in favor of a market economy. After the break up of the former Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin, Russian president, set out to drastically reshape the Russian economy. To accomplish that he could count on very limited help from the west, and no real model to follow, since ... ...

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