The Economics of Soviet Breakup

Before 1991 little was known of the individual states that made up the USSR. Here the effects of the break-up of the Soviet Union on the identities of the fifteen independent states are analyzed.



This book analyzes the effects of the break-up of the Soviet Union into fifteen independent states. Topics discussed include: * past and present economic relations between the republics, and forecasts for the future * discussion of Customs Unions, Monetary Union or Payments Union as possible ways forward for these states * economic integration theory * how the states of the Soviet Union functioned before the dissolution.