... Aung Winston Singapore stock exchange Cambodia Vietnam 1990s political reforms economic reforms Than Shwe Thein Sein Aung San Suu Kyi The traumatic events of 1988 dramatically transformed the political and economic landscape of Burma. Despite the unrelenting repression of the NLD...

... it. Although weapons may have decided the war in favor of the revolutionaries they had not settled the question of power. This chapter considers Vladimir Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP) that would implement economic reforms, the Bolsheviks' failure to carry power into villages, and the dictatorship's lack...

...This chapter examines Khrushchev's economic reforms—or rather, the lack of them—in the light of post-Communist experience. The fact that Khrushchev was no economic reformer used to be held against him. Nowadays, knowing that Gorbachev's half-measures only made things worse, Khrushchev's nonmeasures...

... in the framing of a new constitution in Russia by looking at the struggle over economic reforms and the legislative-executive relations to center-regional power. It discusses Yeltsin's use of a large national constitutional assembly as a forum for drafting a new constitution and considers his extraconstitutional...