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Witness History: Russia’s bitter taste of capitalism

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Russia’s bitter taste of capitalism

26/06/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, Russia’s bitter taste of capitalism

Chaos and hardship hit Russia with the sudden market reforms of early 1992.

Chaos and hardship hit Russia with the shock market reforms of early 1992, just weeks after the collapse of the USSR

Chaos and hardship hit Russia with the rapid market reforms in early 1992, just weeks after the collapse of the USSR.  In 2018 Dina Newman spoke to one of the architects of this “shock therapy” - Andrei Nechaev, who was then the Minister for Economic Development.

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Photo: Old women selling cigarettes on the streets of Moscow in 1992. Credit: BBC.

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