Five five-year periods of liberal reforms. Origins of Russian modernization and the legacy of Yegor Gaidar

The collapse of the Soviet Union was, among other things, the result of the authorities"s refusal of market transformations. Processing with reforms in the 1980s led to their radical nature in the situation of the collapse of the economy of already post-Soviet Russia in 1992. The book of Andrei Kolesnikov explores and evaluates the intellectual and political history of the Russian liberal reforms of the 1990s in the interweaving with the biography of their chief architect Yegor Gaidar. Radical transformations became the author’s project of Gaidar and his team. But at the same time, as the author shows, they were inevitable and non -alternative. Their final success depended on how consistent the development of democratic institutions would be. However, over the years, the political system has acquired an authoritarian character, and the country"s modernization was stopped. What exactly led to such a result and whether successful reforms in Russia are possible - the author is also trying to answer this question. Andrei Kolesnikov is an expert of the Carnegie Foundation, a former chief editor of Novaya Gazeta. The author of the books" Speaks", "Anatoly Chubais. Biography "," The seventies and earlier "," House on the Old Square ", as well as the book" Dialogues with Evgeny Yasin ", published in UFO. Laureate of the Prize Yegor Gaidar (2021) "for an outstanding contribution to the field of history"