A Genocide - Russia and the New World Order (1999).pdf

This is Sergei Glazyev's monumental book Genocide - Russia and the New World Order (1999) which thoroughly analyzes the catastrophic decline of the Russian economy and the deformation of society from August 1991 through Aug. 17, 1998, from the author's unique vantage-point as a member of the government, Deputy of the State Duma and then economist at the Security Council and the Federation Council staff. In documenting the devastation of Russian industry and living standards, dr. Sergei Glazyev's account makes intelligible the anger of many Russian patriots at Western leaders who still preach staying the destructive course that was packaged as "free trade and democracy." The author reckons the genocide policy in Russia from the shelling of the Parliament in October 1993, "when the revolutionaries usurped power and assumed full responsibility for the formulation and conduct of social and economic policy. They carried out, under cover of market reforms, a policy of appropriating the national wealth and colonizing the country for the benefit of international capital, the consequences of which have been catastrophic for the Russian people." Part I of Genocide documents these consequences for the Russian population as a whole, for children, and for the country's regions, with respect to demographic collapse, nutrition, disease, narcotics addiction, crime, employment, education, culture, and morale. Part II explores the ideological justifications for Western leaders to treat Russia as merely a source of loot. Glazyev analyzes Zbigniew Brzezinski's book The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives, as representative of a geopolitical outlook, coherent with the economic ravaging of Russia. Part II also features the author's evaluation of the Kiriyenko government's Summer 1998 program, the August 1998 "Chernomyrdin Plan" promoted by George Soros and Domingo Cavallo, and how the replenishment of Russian Central Bank currency reserves by the International Monetary Fund in July 1998 bought time for preferred, insider speculators to escape from the Russian government bond pyramid before its collapse. Part III outlines an approach to exploiting Russia's surviving assets, such as skilled manpower and areas of scientific innovation, as the basis for an economic growth strategy in the next century. Glazyev is confident that Russia can recover, but only if the "reform" policies of the 1990s are rejected as the instrument of national catastrophe that they have been. "The bankruptcy of that policy of destruction of the country's productive forces, which transpired on Aug. 17, 1998," he writes, "opened up possibilities for a change in economic policy, ... and the creation of conditions for economic growth." Genocide is must reading for an understanding of what went wrong and what was wrong from the outset after the Soviet Union broke up. 305 pages, many charts. A must read for everyone.

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