Russia is an important part of the world economy both now and in the past. Indeed, one would expect an abundance of studies on Russian economic development. In the past, growth and performance in planned economies vis-à-vis the Western world did attract much attention. These types of studies contributed to two revolutions of development thinking, which are the "big push" approach based on success of Soviet industrialization in 1930-s and the unexpected collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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... er, recent performance of the Russian economy is less considered while much could be learned from studying the post-Soviet economic development.