Georgia’s Libertarian Revolution, Part Three: Jacobins in Tbilisi
Georgia’s Libertarian Revolution, Part Three: Jacobins in Tbilisi

Author(s): Author Not Specified
Subject(s): Post-Communist Transformation
Published by: ESI – European Stability Initiative
Keywords: Kakha Bendukidze; Zviad Gamsakhurdia;
Summary/Abstract: The market reforms implemented in Russia in the early 1990s were designed to transform the communist state, root and branch. Anatoly Chubais, architect of Russia‟s mass privatisation effort, expressed this sense of urgency in 1992: “We need to free the economy from the state, free the country from socialism. To shake off the terrible chains of that gigantic, all pervading, bureaucratic, ruinous and ineffective state.” The talk at the time was of shock therapy and radical measures. Unless the changes were truly radical, reformers feared, some form of reconstituted communist party might return to power. Only the complete destruction of a system of state control could prevent any chance of a communist restoration

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