Russia 2010: And What It Means for the World [Paperback]

2010: Russia disintegrates as its frontier regions rebel or drift into the orbit of neighboring countries. 2010: Russia is invigorated by an economic chudo -- "miracle" -- that turns it into a thriving exemplar of the free market. 2010: Russia becomes a grim military dictatorship, bent on expansion.

This brilliant and visionary book, which is based on a confidential report by the international consulting firm CERA, offers several persuasively detailed scenarios of Russia's future. Using the management technique of "scenario planning" and drawing on an extensive knowledge of Russia's political and economic history, Daniel Yergin and Thane Gustafson have produced a study that is already shaping the investment strategies of major corporations and that will become an essential text in the policy debates about the next century. Russia 2010 captures in a timely way the changes shaking Russia and the former Soviet Union after Communism. The result is one of those rare books that not only predict the future but have the power to change it.Preface by Joseph Stanislaw
The World Behind the Mirror

Part One
The New Russian Revolution

Part Two
The Battle for Power
The Big Engine that Couldn't
The Implosion of Empire
Players and Prime Movers
That the Guard Not Tire
The Rough Road to the Market

Part Three
Muddling Down
Two-Headed Eagle
The Time of Troubles: Chaos and Reaction
The Long Good-bye
The Russian Bear

Part Four
Capitalism Russian-Style: 2010 and Beyond
Chudo at Work—The New Russian Entrepreneurs: “Evident but Unbelievable”
Surprises

Part Five
The Return of a Great Power with Angela Stent
Who Pays for the Plowshares? Foreign Investors andlã7