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Extraction code: 2qfe? Title: The Death of the Empire

Author: [Russia] E.T Gaidar

Translator: Eden Wang

Douban score: 8.2

Publishing House: Social Science Literature Publishing House

Publication year: June 2008

Page count: 32 1

Content introduction:

The author of The Death of the Empire: Lessons from Contemporary Russia begins with an introduction to the decline of the empire in world history, presenting the economic situation of the Soviet Union in the 1980s. He analyzed the economic deterioration caused by food shortage, soaring prices, currency crisis, financial dishonesty, falling oil prices, and improper policies in the Soviet Union, and how it gradually evolved into crisis, disaster, bankruptcy, and finally political out of control, leading to the demise of the Soviet Union.

About the author:

E.T. Gaidar, doctor of economics, professor, served as acting prime minister of the Russian Federation from 65438 to 0992; 1993 ~ 1994 as the first vice-chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Federation; 1994-2004 Chairman of the "Russian Democratic Choice" Party; 1999 ~ 2003, he was a member of the State Duma, one of the co-chairs of the Justice Forces Alliance Party, and a member of the Budget and Taxation Committee. He is currently the director of the Russian Institute of Transition Economy.

Mr. Gaidar has published hundreds of papers and works in journals, including: Economic Reform and Hierarchical Structure (1990); State and evolution (1996); Abnormal phenomena in economic growth (1997); Years of failure and victory (1998); Long Time-Russia in the World, Economic History Essay (2005), etc.