Russia had freed itself from communism, but not from the communist legacy; it had constructed its own capitalist system, only to discover it had built the wrong kind. (查看原文)
By 1999, the power of the central government had shrunk so much that... the only territoy Yeltsin really controlled was the Kremlin itself.
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Throughout provincial Russia, regional governors and businesses refused to surrender tax revenues to a central government that had lost power to either coerce or cajole them.
The government became so weak that even the law could be bought and sold. ......
For Russia's richest, best connected businessmen, an enfeebled state offer many advantages: a weak tax collection agency meant taxes could be evaded, bent judges meant investors could be fleeced; malleable civil servant meant extremely lucrative government contract could be won.
But the price of these benefit was high, high enough to kill, or at least to cripple, many of the country's busi... (查看原文)
还没人写过短评呢
还没人写过短评呢