The New Russia: A Handbook of Economic and Political Developments.
本书批评西方评论者未能理解俄罗斯，指出他们要么套用西方模型（如拉丁美洲经验），要么将俄罗斯视为腐败无能，而1990年代的经济动荡被归咎于西方专家和本土年轻经济学家的脱离现实政策。
Russians frequently criticise western commentators for ‘failing to understand’ their country. On the one hand, they advocate free market economic solutions based on developed western models and tested (with debatable success) on Latin America. They fail to take into account the peculiar Russian national character, and the natural structure of Russia's economy. On the other hand, they view Russia as different in the sense that it is essentially corrupt, unable of understanding economic fundamentals without outside advice, and incapable of building functioning and stable civic and political institutions. Thus, the economic turbulence of the 1990s has widely been blamed on the army of western experts parachuted into Moscow or dictating programmes from afar since the collapse of communism. In this they were aided and abetted by a group of young Russian economists led by Yegor Gaidar whose experience was confined to the ivory towers of academe and who were described by Nikolai Shmelev as ‘new smart guys … judging their policy mostly from economic textbooks rather than real life’ (p. 46). Under this naïve leadership it was a relatively simple task for a small group of ‘oligarchs’ to snap up Russia's most valuable companies, strip them of their assets, and shift the proceeds abroad.