RUSSIA’S 1990s PRIVATIZATION NIGHTMARE | The Winter Latina Show | Episode 6

Russia’s rapid transition from a state-controlled, command economy within the USSR to neoliberal capitalism of the 1990s with the help of Western advisers was a bona fide nightmare for the general population. At the same time, a small number of oligarchs got rich quickly and often criminally, while Western companies profited. How did it all happen? Support: The article we discussed: “Harvard Boys Do Russia,“ The Nation, 1998