Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Privatization and Transition in Russia in the Early 1990s: Perspectives 2. The Mass Privatization Programme: The Ideas, their Evolution and their Embodiment in Law 3. Reforming the Communist Inheritance: 'The Goals and Limits of Priatization' 4. Implementation of Privatization, 1992-94 5. Implementation of Privatization after 1994 6. Conclusion

About the Author

Carol Scott Leonard is Emeritus Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, UK

David Pitt-Watson is CEO of Hermes Focus Asset Management. Both served as economic policy advistors to the Russian Federation.