Об оппонентах Ельцина см. S. Frederick Starr в Baltimore Sun, March 26, 1993; Anders Aslund в NYT, Dec. 7, 1992; Michael Specter со ссылкой на Michael McFaul, ibid, May 5, 1996; и Stephen Sestanovich, ibid, Dec. 23, 1991. О реформах как «истории успеха» см. Joseph Blasi, ibid, June 30, 1994; Stephen Sestanovich, ibid, Sept 27, 1994; Anders Aslund в Foreign Affairs, Sept.-Oct. 1994, pp. 58–71, и его How Russia Became a Market Economy (Washington, D. C, 1995); Brigitte Granville, The Success of Russian Economic Reforms (London, 1995); Richard Layard and John Parker, The Coming Russian Boom (New York, 1996); Joseph R. Blasi, Maya Kroumova, and Douglas Kruse, Kremlin Capitalism (Ithaca, 1997); а также Daniel Yergin and Thane Gustafson, Russia 2010 (New York, 1993). Отдельные элементы такого описания можно также найти в: Brady, Kapitalizm, and Thane Gustafson, Capitalism Russian-Style (New York, 1999). Оптимизм экономистов разделяют и политологи. См., например: Nicolai M. Petro, The Rebirth of Russian Democracy (Cambridge, Mass., 1995); John Lowenhardt, The Reincarnation of Russia (Durham, NC, 1995); M. Steven Fish, Democracy From Scratch (Princeton, 1995); и Marcia A. Weigle, Russia's Lib-eralProject (University Park, Pa., 2000).