Kapitalizm: Russia's Struggle to Free Its Economy

Although there's some truth to the popular conception of the former Soviet Union's embrace of free-market capitalism as chaotic and corrupt, it must also be admitted that the reformists have done quite a remarkable thing, with nearly three-quarters of Russia's economic production now based in private enterprise. Rose Brady, who used to report from Moscow for Business Week, goes over the transformation step by step, focusing on the financial planners who made it happen and the corporate magnates who--in some cases through government-approved insider trading--benefited from the process.