Essay Russia Case

After the Soviet regime had fallen the Russia found itself in the face of great opportunity to choose a completely new way to build its life to develop its economy and what is the most important to write the new history of the new Russia. In this paper author will analyze the results of the choice done and the way that choice was made realized.

The sphere of the first importance to transform was determined the political one. After the hum of coup d'etat of 19 August 1991 had calm down Russia's people have decided to use the historic chance to develop the really democratic and free future according to the modern world standards. But what really was not taken into account was the fact that Europe for example had the old stable historic tradition of the democratic development for about a century. As to Russia the state had behind itself the centuries of autocratic rule and peasant ignorance and than seven decades of totalitarian dictatorship, repressions, centralization, complete restriction of political, cultural, personal freedoms.

Was the Russian experiment successful? Seems like not really... The decades of Czars` ruling and totalitarian pressing cultivate a populace absolutely devoid of individual initiative and passive to the core. There was the fatal mistake: Russia quite differs from the western world as well as from the eastern one, but all the time from the very beginning she tries to follow the European experience. She can not understand that having her own character, peculiar features caused by its many-centuries history when Russia was one of the vast states such as Kyiv Rus, Russian Empire and finally Soviet Union. After all the former Soviet Republics became independent they found themselves in some kind of environment separate from the other parts of the world, between West and East. So in that situation the best way would be to elaborate their own model of polytypical and economic system but not to slave themselves to the formulas of western systems.

The results didn't keep waiting for. The average duration of people's life has fallen to 57 years against 63 in the Soviet period. There were also disastrous drop in the industry and agriculture about 50% of the Gorbachev's indexes. All that mess resulted in fact that Russian people lost trust to the authorities stopped struggle to positive changes.

The development of new Russia stretched not full-fledgedly, the attention was all the time concentrated on several aspects while the others left to develop as they might. And only now we see that not just privatization, market and monetary reforms, price liberalization are necessary aspects of developed market economy but also effective legislatory base, administrative system, differential tax schedules are extremely needed.

As the conclusion it can be summed up that the reason of Russia's complete mess today is very complex and multifold. First of all, its wrong course from