People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Viktor Vladimirovich Dementsev Виктор Владимирович Деменцев A fiscal realist who warned against abrupt prohibition
- Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin Леонид Иванович Абалкин Chief economic theorist of late perestroika, architect of the 'regulated market' between radical reformers and conservative planners
- Arnold Vasilyevich Voylukov Арнольд Васильевич Войлуков The Soviet banker who testified about reform's hidden origins
- Stanislav Sergeyevich Shatalin Станислав Сергеевич Шаталин Architect of the 500 Days programme, radical reform economist who tried to convert the Soviet planned economy to the market in one leap
- Grigory Alekseyevich Yavlinsky Григорий Алексеевич Явлинский Architect of the 500 Days Program: perestroika economist who drafted a rapid transition from planned economy to market
- Yegor Timurovich Gaidar Егор Тимурович Гайдар Architect of shock therapy, the economist who dismantled the planned economy and laid the first stones of Russian capitalism