The authors gratefully acknowledge the important contribution to this book made by Alisa Voznaia, who, while completing her D.Phil. at the University of Oxford, graciously helped shape these chapters into a book. A special debt of gratitude is due to CEELBAS, the Consortium of UK Universities, which sponsored the conference on privatization at St Antony’s College, and to our co-organizer Christopher Gerry. The authors appreciated the papers presented and discussions at that conference, with particular thanks to Ira Liberman, Vladimir Mau, Dmitry Vasiliev, Christopher Granville, Padma Desai, Anders Åslund, Marshall Goldman, Saul Estrin, Bill Tompson, Silvana Malle, Julian Cooper, Tina Jennings, Tomas Mickiewicz, John Earle, Giovanni Cornea, Phil Hanson, Judith Shapiro, Pekka Sutela, Simon Commander and Wolfram Shrettl. We thank those who worked for the EBRD/World Bank Consortium of advisers to Russia in 1992–94, in particular Joshua Bower Saul and Nicola Ramsden who have contributed appendices for this publication. The authors express appreciation for an anonymous charity research grant, which covered travel to Russia and editing of the book. The authors are grateful for support by the Presidential Academy of the National Economy and Public Administration, the National Research University – Higher School of Economics, and St Antony’s College in Oxford, where the work on this book was completed.
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