Collapse of an Empire
by Yegor Gaidar · first published 2007
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…one point at least seems accurate -- falling oil prices will probably doom Russia's government. This has happened before: see this very interesting book by economist and former Russian PM Yegor Gaidar: Collapse of an Empire. I can't recommend it enough. But basically, his thesis is the reason communist Russia fell was oil prices fell below the level needed to support spending and because of structural deficiencies in the…
on “The Russian Collapse?” ↗> Egor Gaidar [1] is an excellent source This is published in English as [1] Yegor Gaidar, "Collapse of an Empire: Lessons for Modern Russia". TLDR is maybe this [2] write-up of a talk, 8 pages, very interesting. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Empire-Lessons-Modern-Russia... [1] https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/20070419_Gaid...
on “EU Signs €145B Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors and 2nm Technology” ↗If you really want to find out the reasons why USSR failed I suggest reading “Collapse the fall of Soviet Union” by Zubok or “Collapse of an Empire” by Gaidar. They are easy to read books. Said reasons are quite different from what is going on in USA at the moment.
on “Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts” ↗…Soviet Union provided by Yegor Gaidar, who had been acting prime minister of Russia from June of 1992 to December of 1992 and a key figure in the transformation of the Russian economy. In his last work, Collapse of an Empire: Lessons for Modern Russia, published in 2007 Gaidar provides a powerful explanation for the collapse of the Soviet Union. Soviet agriculture had stagnated in the 1980's but the demand for grain in the…
on “Saudi Arabia’s Great Run Seems Headed for Trouble” ↗Yegor Gaidar's book is on Amazon: "Collapse of an Empire: Lessons for Modern Russia" http://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Empire-Lessons-Modern-Russia/... The description and reviews are very comprehensive.
on “The 2 Simple Reasons the Soviet Union Was Doomed to Fail” ↗…Which means Russia is coasting on what they had up to 2022. Meaning in a few years Russia will do what it did in the 70s: over-extract its most productive fields. To see how that movie ended read Gaidar's Collapse of an Empire.
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