Quarter century of reforms in Russia: seven radical stages - seven manifests of prominent economists and sociologists

The authors analyze the 25-year period of the radical economic reform in Russia - the transition to a market economy of the Russian type. There are seven stages of this period. They conclude that the reforms carried out are not effective enough and that the path chosen by the Russian government was not the only way possible. With reasonable use of Soviet and modern foreign experience, it was possible to move to an effective m ixed market without significant social upheavals, creating an oligarchy and destroying the country’s production potential.