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Clifford Gaddy's and Barry Ickes' thesis-that Russia's economy is based on illusion or pretense about nearly every important economic yardstick, including prices, sales, wages and budgets-has forced broad recognition of the inadequacies of the intended market reform policies in Russia and provided a coherent framework for understanding how and why so much of Russia's economy has resisted reform.

Clifford Gaddy's and Barry Ickes' thesis-that Russia's economy is based on illusion or pretense about nearly every important economic yardstick, including prices, sales, wages and budgets-has forced broad recognition of the inadequacies of the intended market reform policies in Russia and provided a coherent framework for understanding how and why so much of Russia's economy has resisted reform.

Russia's dependence on its oil and gas wealth is much deeper than generally recognized. Since their privatization in the 1990s, a small number of oligarchs have taken control of the economy, and the fates of millions of Russians. Vladimir Putin's system of personal protection has been successful in keeping peace among these oligarchs and Russia's industrial heartland-but can it continue? In Russia's Addiction, Clifford Gaddy and Barry Ickes ar...