Just days after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin resolved to embark on a program of radical economic reform, with the aim of restructuring Russia's economic system--converting the world's largest command economy into a free-market one.
Just days after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin resolved to embark on a program of radical economic reform. Unlike Gorbachev's reforms which sought to expand democracy in the socialist system, the new regime embarked to completely dismantle socialism and fully restore capitalism--converting the world's largest command economy into a free-market one.