Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Vladimir Mau Author-Name-First: Vladimir Author-Name-Last: Mau Author-Workplace-Name:Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Title: Economic and Political Results for 2001 and Prospects for Strengthening Economic Growth Abstract: The year 2001 concluded the first decade of post-Communist transformation, Russia’s development in a regime of market democracy. The period witnessed difficult and complex processes of the transformation of Soviet socialism into a new society. A tortuous and contradictory path gave rise to acrimonious debate about the very nature of reform, its effectiveness and appropriateness, about whether there were alternative ways of meeting the challenges that the country was facing. Length: 17 pages Creation-Date: 2002 Revision-Date: 2012 Classification-JEL: F43 Keywords: Russian economy, economic growth File-URL: https://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/ppaper/114Mau.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf File-Function: Revised version, 2012 Handle: RePEc:gai:ppaper:114