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Newsweek
December 1, 1998

A Recipe for Disaster. (Excerpt)

Andrew Nagorski

"In her new book Collision and Collusion: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe 1989-1998, George Washington University anthropologist Janine Wedel argues that the Clinton administration was determined to cast Boris Yeltsin's young reformers as the good guys. This, she says, unwittingly contributed to Russia's current economic mess. The result, Wedel contends, is that American aid to Russia has proved to be "a disaster from beginning to end."

Full text of the article available at:
Johnsons's Russia List, #2497, December 1, 1998.

© , Janine Wedel