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The review of: 1) Anders Aslund, How Russia Became a Market Economy (Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 1995). 2) Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira, Jose Maria Maravall, and Adam Przeworski, Economic Reforms in New Democracies: A Social-Democratic Approach (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993). 3) Marshall I. Goldman, Lost Opportunity: What Has Made Economic Reform in Russia So Difficult, 2d ed. (New York: Norton, 1996). 4) J. L. Porker, Unemployment in Capitalist, Communist, and Post-Communist Economies (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995). 5) Jeffrey Sachs, Poland's Jump to the Market Economy (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994).