IS THIS ANY WAY TO CREATE A MARKET-ECONOMY

What is the state of the Russian economy? Is it a mafia-ridden, poorly executed experiment in economic change? Or is it only exhibiting the stresses and strains one would expect to see in an emerging free-marke t system? Our first two articles in this issue offer alternative asses sments. Marshall Goldman notes that ''previous efforts at reform in Ru ssian history did not succeed, and there is growing anger at Russia's present form of 'bastard' capitalism. It may be a market but not one t hat most societies would tolerate.''