CIAO DATE: 07/2008
August 2007
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Criticizing preceding regimes is a popular pastime of Russian leaders. But in denouncing the "chaos of the 1990s," the Vladimir Putin regime seems to have an additional purpose: to defame the idea of liberty itself. Part I of this two-part Russian Outlook examines the claim that the revolution was entirely responsible for Russia's economic woes in the 1990s. Part II will take issue with the assertion that the Yeltsin years brought nothing but "chaos."
Resource link: Was Liberty Really Bad for Russia? Part I [PDF] - 185K