""Contents""; ""Figures and Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Breaking Apart from Russia""; ""2. Agreeing to Manage Economic Policies in Uzbekistan""; ""3. Economics Determines Politics for Nazarbayev""; ""4. Connecting Specific Reform Policies to Investment and Business""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""
Summary
In the twenty years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the fifteen new independent republics have embarked on unprecedented transitions from command economies into market-oriented economies. Important motivating factors for their reform efforts included issues of geographic and economic proximity to Europe and the influence of the pre-Soviet era histories in those countries. In the Shadow of Russia builds upon the conceptual frameworks that include geography and policy choices about economic integration in an analysis of the reform efforts of Kazakhstan and U.
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