"No writing or oratory in history has been more replete with bad advice than that given Russia in the last decade. Here, for a change, is something very good--the best, in fact, that truly competent and responsible American and Russian scholars have to offer. I strongly recommend it."--John Kenneth Galbraith "A searching critique of the strategy favored in the West . . . it contributes fresh perspectives on the much debated question concerning the 'big bang' versus 'gradualism' in communist economic transformation."--Abram Bergson, Harvard University