Russia It is not so easy to take the long view of socioeconomic history when you are participating in a revolution. For that reason, Russian economist Yegor Gaidar put aside an early version of this work to take up a series of government positions--as Minister of Finance and as Boris Yeltsin"s acting Prime Minister--in the early 1990s. In government, Gaidar shepherded Russia through its transition to a m... Full description