This was communism's economic fortress and Gaidar arrived like the interloper he was - with a policeman at his side and the presidential decree appointing him stuffed like a pistol in his
Already, there was snow in the pine forests outside the capital and the premature autumnal chill made the hulking grey Gosplan building in central Moscow, designed by Stalin's architects to humble its visitors, feel even For Russia's capitalist revolutionaries, that moment came in early November 1991 when Yegor Gaidar, the new deputy prime ministerĪnd arch market reformer, walked into the offices of Gosplan, the headquarters of the Soviet central planning system. Russia's Wild Ride From Communism to CapitalismĮvery revolution has its Bastille Day, the moment when the rebels finally breach the inner sanctum of the old regime.
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