| How the Clinton Administration Exported Government Instead of Free Enterprise
 
Introduction	1
 Executive Summary 	3
 CHAPTER 1
 1991: The Fall of the Soviet Union and the Rise of Russia 	16
 CHAPTER 2
 Conditions in Russia at the Outset of the Yeltsin and Clinton Administrations 26
 CHAPTER 3
 The Task Ahead: Creation of a Free-Enterprise System after a
 Century of State Control 	38
 CHAPTER 4
 The Fundamental Flaws of the Clinton Administration's Russia Policy	50
 CHAPTER 5
 The Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission 	70
 CHAPTER 6
 'Bull****': Gore and Other Administration Policy Makers
 Systematically Ignore Evidence of Corruption of Their 'Partners' 	78
 CHAPTER 7
 The Rise of Organized Crime 	86
 CHAPTER 8
 1998: Years of Bad Advice Culminate in Russia's
 Total Economic Collapse 	100
 CHAPTER 9
 Weapons Proliferation Feeds a Corrupt and Cash-Starved System 	112
 CHAPTER 10
 From Friendship to Cold Peace: The Decline of US-Russia
 Relations During the 1990s 	126
 CHAPTER 11
 'The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend': Russia
 Emerges as a Strategic Partner of the People's Republic of China 	148
 CHAPTER 12
 Despite Years of Policy Failure, A Bright Russian Future Is Still Possible 	166
 Recommendations	 177
 Index 	208
 
 SPEAKER'S ADVISORY GROUP ON RUSSIA
 CHRISTOPHER COX, CHAIRMAN
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 RUSSIA'S ROAD TO CORRUPTION - How the Clinton Administration Exported
 Government Instead of Free Enterprise
 and Failed the Russian People -SPEAKER'S ADVISORY GROUP ON RUSSIA
 CHRISTOPHER COX, CHAIRMAN
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 RUSSIA'S ROAD TO CORRUPTION - How the Clinton Administration Exported
 Government Instead of Free Enterprise
 and Failed the Russian People -Members of the Speaker's Advisory Group on Russia
 United States House of Representatives
 106
 th
 Congress
 HON CHRISTOPHER COX, CHAIRMAN
 Chairman, House Policy Committee
 HON BEN GILMAN
 Chairman, Committee on International Relations
 HON PORTER GOSS
 Chairman, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
 HON JIM LEACH
 Chairman, Committee on Banking and Financial Services
 HON FLOYD SPENCE
 Chairman, Committee on Armed Services
 HON CW YOUNG
 Chairman, Committee on Appropriations
 HON TILLIE FOWLER
 Vice Chair, House Republican Conference
 Member, Committee on Armed Services
 HON JIM SAXTON
 Vice Chairman, Joint Economic Committee
 HON SPENCER BACHUS
 Chairman, Banking Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy
 HON SONNY CALLAHAN
 Chairman, Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations
 HON CURT WELDON
 Chairman, Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Research and Development
 Co-Chairman, Duma-Congress Study Group
 HON ROGER WICKER
 Co-Chairman, House Russian Leadership Program
 Member, Foreign Operations Appropriations SubcommitteeUS House of Representatives
 Washington, DC 20515
 Report Date: September 2000
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 Printed in the United States of AmericaIntroduction1
 Executive Summary 3
 CHAPTER 1
 1991: The Fall of the Soviet Union and the Rise of Russia 16
 CHAPTER 2
 Conditions in Russia at the Outset of the Yeltsin and Clinton Administrations 26
 CHAPTER 3
 The Task Ahead: Creation of a Free-Enterprise System after a
 Century of State Control 	38
 CHAPTER 4
 The Fundamental Flaws of the Clinton Administration's Russia Policy	50
 CHAPTER 5
 The Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission 	70
 CHAPTER 6
 'Bull****': Gore and Other Administration Policy Makers
 Systematically Ignore Evidence of Corruption of Their 'Partners' 	78
 CHAPTER 7
 The Rise of Organized Crime 	86
 CHAPTER 8
 1998: Years of Bad Advice Culminate in Russia's
 Total Economic Collapse 	100
 CHAPTER 9
 Weapons Proliferation Feeds a Corrupt and Cash-Starved System	 112
 CHAPTER 10
 From Friendship to Cold Peace: The Decline of US-Russia
 Relations During the 1990s 	126
 CHAPTER 11
 'The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend': Russia
 Emerges as a Strategic Partner of the People's Republic of China 	148
 CHAPTER 12
 Despite Years of Policy Failure, A Bright Russian Future Is Still Possible 	166
 Recommendations 	177
 Index 	208
 
Speaker's Advisory Group on Russia
 
 
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