１９９１年俄罗斯选择“休克疗法”向市场经济过渡，一方面是由当时的客观经济情况决定的，而更主要的是１９９１年八月事件后掌权的新政治精英的政治地位和思想观念的反应。他们竭力反对共产主义，并不惜一切代价巩固自己的政权。起初实行的改革政策，其真实动机并非要改革经 The transition of Russia’s choice of “shock therapy” to the market economy in 1991 was decided by the then objective economic conditions on the one hand, and more importantly the reaction of the political status and ideology of the new political elite who took power after the August 1991 incident. They vigorously opposed communism and consolidated their regime at all costs. The real motivation for the initial reform policy was not to reform the economy