The Crimean situation complicates any efforts to make peace between Russia and Ukraine. Most Crimeans back Russia in the current Ukraine war because they consider Russia the lesser of two evils. That ...

The Soviet Union was transformed, through forced collectivization, from being a food exporter to being unable to feed itself. The command economy limited the competitive gains that could be made from ...

Lest the headline scandalizes you, this is not an apology for the Soviet Union or its centrally (and badly) planned economy and gulags. So please indulge me. The world, rather two of the most ...

World Review of Political Economy 9 (3): 296–314. Cheng, E., and Z. Liu. 2017. “The Historical Contribution of the October Revolution to the Economic and Social Development of the Soviet ...

In this situation, the economy will settle at a low-level partial reform equilibrium ... Analysis and Lessons for Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (Washington: World Bank, 2002), which was ...

The Soviet Union drowned in a surge of optimism ... With the end of the planned economy came untold riches or entry into a new middle class for some; for others it was a sudden plunge into ...

Cuba adopted a new tax code this week and said it would loosen regulations on some state companies while turning others into cooperatives, as one of the world's last Soviet-style economies moves ...