Archive for Yuri N. Maltsev
Property and Freedom
Richard Pipes is professor emeritus of history and former director of the Russian Research Center at Harvard University. Pipes has also had an extensive career in government, serving as director of East European and Soviet affairs in President Reagan’s National Security Council. He is the author of several books on the Russian Revolution, including the [...]
1Sep2000 | Yuri N. Maltsev | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Political History of Economic Reform in Russia, 1985-1994
Dr. Maltsev is associate professor of economics at Carthage College in Wisconsin. The economic and political collapse of the Soviet Union was a surprise only to the CIA, Sovietologists, and fellow travelers of Communism in the West. For people like Dr. Vladimir Mau, who followed the direction of economic and political developments in the USSR [...]
1Aug1996 | Yuri N. Maltsev | 0 comments | ContinuedEconomics of Russian Crime
Dr. Yuri N. Maltsev, Associate Professor of Economics at Carthage College, Wisc., and a Peace Fellow of the United States Institute of Peace, held, over a 15-year period, various teaching and research positions in Moscow, Russia. Before coming to the U.S. in 1989, he was a member of a senior team of Soviet economists that [...]
1Dec1995 | Yuri N. Maltsev | 1 comment | ContinuedSocialized Health-Care Nightmare
Dr. Maltsev gained his insight as an adviser to the last Soviet government on issues of social policy, including health care, and as a patient in the system. He teaches at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Louise Omdahl, a nursing educator and manager, is actively involved in humanitarian assistance through nursing contacts in Russia and [...]
1Nov1994 | Yuri N. Maltsev | 11 comments | ContinuedSoviet Economic Reforms: An Inside Perspective
The crisis in the Soviet economy is now apparent to both Soviet and Western observers. The causes and manifestations of this crisis have been cogently described elsewhere. The response of the Soviet ruling class to the deteriorating economy and growing societal alienation was the program of reforms known as perestroika, which was initiated in 1985 [...]
1Mar1990 | Yuri N. Maltsev | 0 comments | Continued-
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