Власть и собственность

Almost two decades have passed since the start of market reforms. The attitude towards them in society is still ambiguous, their results cause fierce debate. However, we should not forget that thanks to them we avoided a civil war in the post-Soviet space. It is thanks to the measures taken in 1991-1992 that starvation did not start in large cities of Russia, although the "bins of the Motherland" were empty, and gold and foreign exchange reserves were reduced to the cost of one supermarket. Thanks to the reforms carried out in 1992, it was possible to abandon the system of directive planning and pricing without bloodshed. The foundations of a competitive market were laid, which paved the way for the modernization of the country, its transformation from a raw materials appendage of developed countries into a technically highly developed power. Not everyone then knew that they would have to pay for this by closing non-competitive industries, military-industrial complex plants, that savings would burn out in the fire of high inflation. E. Gaidar's new work "Troubles and Institutions" is about this. The collection also includes his other work - "The State and Evolution", which was published 15 years ago, but has not lost its relevance today. It is the fruit of the author's reflections on the difference between the interests of the bureaucracy and the broad strata of the people, clearly manifested in the course of Gorbachev's perestroika and subsequent market reforms, on the relationship between power and property in Russia.