title: Post-Cold War Russia and the Missed Opportunity for Global Stability
abstract: The issue of aid to the Soviet Union, first of all, was one in which there was not a great deal of difference within the administration.Or, indeed, among most of the allies.In the course of '90 and, perhaps, into '91, Germany had given something like 15 billion dollars in aid to the Soviet Union -which disappeared, as far as we could figure out, without a trace There was little thought about serious assistance before the Soviet Union -and subsequently Russia -adopted an economic program that ass