Economics of Soviet Breakup

Bert van Selm is a Lecturer at the Institute of East European Law and Russian Studies, University of Leiden. He has written numerous journal articles on the economics of the Soviet break-up, and has travelled widely through the former USSR.

• 1. Introduction and Overview 2. The Economics of Soviet Break-up 3. The Soviet Union 1922-91 4. Former Soviet Republics' Economic Interdependence 5. Gravity Model of the Former Soviet Union 6. The Soviet Union as a Customs and Monetary Union 7. The Soviet Union as a Payments Union 8. The Soviet Union as a Redistributor 9. The Newly Independent States in Transition 10. Conclusion: Economic Relations among ex-USSR republics then, now, and later 11. References 12. Index