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Zusatztext "Important... an intelligent and essential guide .... Whatever the West does should be done on the basis of clear-eyed knowledge of what Russia really is like. Reading this book would be a good place to start." -- Chicago Tribune "Original .... A text which will be of enormous help for all who wish to think open-mindedly about Russia's inscrutable future." Informationen zum Autor Daniel Yergin Klappentext 2010: Russia disintegrates as its frontier regions rebel or drift into the orbit of neighboring countries. 2010: Russia is invigorated by an economic chudo -- "miracle" -- that turns it into a thriving exemplar of the free market. 2010: Russia becomes a grim military dictatorship, bent on expansion. This brilliant and visionary book, which is based on a confidential report by the international consulting firm CERA, offers several persuasively detailed scenarios of Russia's future. Using the management technique of "scenario planning" and drawing on an extensive knowledge of Russia's political and economic history, Daniel Yergin and Thane Gustafson have produced a study that is already shaping the investment strategies of major corporations and that will become an essential text in the policy debates about the next century. Russia 2010 captures in a timely way the changes shaking Russia and the former Soviet Union after Communism. The result is one of those rare books that not only predict the future but have the power to change it. Zusammenfassung 2010: Russia disintegrates as its frontier regions rebel or drift into the orbit of neighboring countries. 2010: Russia is invigorated by an economic chudo -- "miracle" -- that turns it into a thriving exemplar of the free market. 2010: Russia becomes a grim military dictatorship! bent on expansion. This brilliant and visionary book! which is based on a confidential report by the international consulting firm CERA! offers several persuasively detailed scenarios of Russia's future. Using the management technique of "scenario planning" and drawing on an extensive knowledge of Russia's political and economic history! Daniel Yergin and Thane Gustafson have produced a study that is already shaping the investment strategies of major corporations and that will become an essential text in the policy debates about the next century. Russia 2010 captures in a timely way the changes shaking Russia and the former Soviet Union after Communism. The result is one of those rare books that not only predict the future but have the power to change it. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface by Joseph Stanislaw The World Behind the Mirror Part One The New Russian Revolution Part Two The Battle for Power The Big Engine that Couldn't The Implosion of Empire Players and Prime Movers That the Guard Not Tire The Rough Road to the Market Part Three Muddling Down Two-Headed Eagle The Time of Troubles: Chaos and Reaction The Long Good-bye The Russian Bear Part Four Capitalism Russian-Style: 2010 and Beyond Chudo at Work—The New Russian Entrepreneurs: “Evident but Unbelievable” Surprises Part Five The Return of a Great Power with Angela Stent Who Pays for the Plowshares? Foreign Investors and the New Capitalists Russia and the West Appendix: Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union...
