I The Russian Transformation Crisis.- A. The EU and Russia: Strategic Aspects of Transformation and Integration.- B. Currency Crisis Theories — Some Explanations for the Russian Case.- C. Banking Sector and Financial Intermediation in the Russian Transformation Process.- D. Institutional Failures of Market Transformation of the Russian Economy.- E. Russian Crisis: Causes, Developments, Contagion and Prospects.- II Restructuring in Transition Economies.- F. Foreign Direct Investment in Russia: An Engine of Structural Adjustment?.- G. Russian Economy: Structural Change and Econometric Prospective.- H. Economic Opening-Up, Policy Reforms and Relations with International Organizations:A Parallel between Hungary and Russia - Some Major Differences and Similarities.- III Stabilizing Russia.- I. Towards Credible Monetary and Fiscal Policies in Russia.- J. Russian Capital Markets and International Financial Flows.- K. Consumer Prices in Russia and Transforming Official Statistics.- L. The Rationale for Seigniorage in Russia - A Model-Theoretic Approach.- M. Overcoming the Russian Banking Crisis: Theory, Some Empirical Findings and Policy Options.- IV Modernizing Russia.- N. Institutions and Transition: On the Way to a Market Economy — Theory and Application to Russia.- O. Overcoming the Transformation Crisis - Selected Issues and Policy Options in Russia.- P. Nurturing Entrepreneurship and the Role of Co-operatives.- Q. Foreign Direct Investment and Growth in Russia, Poland and the Ukraine.- R. Reforming the Natural Monopoly - the Case of Railroad Transport.- V Economic Roundtable: Internal and External Russian Transition Problems.- S. Permanent Crisis in Russia: Selected Problems of Macroeconomic Performance.- T. Systemic Transformation in Russia: Outcomes, Causes, NewImperatives.- U. Official Statistics in Russia and the Measurement of the Crisis - Some Remarks on Russian Price Statistics.- V. Rent-seeking as a Source of Macroeconomic Instability in Russia.- W. Foreign Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in Transformation Crisis in Russia and Ukraine.- X. Appendix: Selected Macroeconomic Data on Russia and Eastern Europe.- Y. Selection of Links and Internet Pages of Research Institutions Related to Russia.- Z. About the Project: Real and Monetary Transformation Crisis in Russia: Developments, Analysis and Sustainable Transformation.- List of Tables.- List of Figures.- List of Contributors.