A Normal Country: Russia After Communism
分析1990年代俄罗斯从共产主义向民主和市场经济的转型，发现其实际表现与西方普遍认为的灾难性失败印象存在巨大差距，到1990年代末俄罗斯已成为典型的中等收入资本主义民主国家。
During the 1990s, Russia underwent an extraordinary transformation from a communist dictatorship to a multi-party democracy, from a centrally planned economy to a market economy, and from a belligerent adversary of the West to a cooperative partner. Yet a consensus in the US circa 2000 viewed Russia as a disastrous and threatening failure, and the 1990s as a decade of catastrophe for its citizens. Analyzing a variety of economic and political data, we demonstrate a large gap between this perception and the facts. In contrast to the common image, by the late 1990s Russia had become a typical middle-income capitalist democracy.