Russia and Eurasia at the Crossroads

The CIS in the World Economy.- The CIS and its Economic Potential.- Natural Resources and Production Potential of CIS Countries.- Industry in the CIS Countries in the 20th Century.- The CIS in the World Economic Relationships.- General Goals of Economic Reforms.- Towards Sustainable Development in Society.- Structural Economic Reforms. The Liberal Model.- Institutional Reforms.- Denationalization, Privatization and Economic Security in CIS Countries.- Denationalization: Rational Level.- Lights and Shades of Privatization.- Development of Small-Scale Business.- Economic Security and Choice of Future Strategy for Reforms.- Forming Market Infrastructure.- Commercial Infrastructure.- Industrial and Environmental Infrastructure.- Public Social Protection.- Towards a New Structure of Public Economy.- Science-Technology Core of Structural Reforms.- Development of High-Technology Industries.- The Fuel-Energy and Raw-Materials Complex.- Changes in the Agroindustrial Sector.- CIS Agroindustrial Complex forward the End of the 20th Century.- Agrarian Reforms.- Development of Processing Industries of Agroindustrial Complex and Food Safety in the CIS.- Macroeconomic Policies in CIS Member States.- Budget Policy.- Credit and Monetary Policy.- Investment Policy.- Role of Foreign Investment.- Tax Policy.- Microeconomic Basis of Reforms.- The Firm is the Pseudomarket Economy.- Major Trends in Firm Restructing.- Insolvency and Preventing Insolvency.- CIS Countries on the Ways to Regional Economic Integration.- Regional Economic Integration in Today World.- Experience and Problems of Economic Integration in the CIS.- Towards a Common Economic Space.- Towards a Common Science-Technology and Education Space.- Organizational Forms of Integration.- The Petersburg Economic Forum.- Issues of Economic Integration in International Research.