Privatizing Russia

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This work offers an inside look at one of the most remarkable reforms in recent history. Having started on the back burner of Russian politics in the autumn of 1991, mass privatization was completed on July 1, 1994, with two thirds of Russian industry privately owned, a rapidly rising stock market and 40 million Russians owning company shares. The authors describe the events and the ideas driving privatization, arguing that successful reformers must recognize privatization as a process of depoliticising firms in the face of massive opposition: making the firm responsive to market rather than political influences.