Books begin in unexpected places. This book began in part on a summer's day on the outskirts of Moscow. The Izmailovo outdoor market sprawls over acres on the southwest edge of the city, almost at the very end of the subway line. Its transformation - from a park for exhibiting painting and crafts into a vast bazaar - was one of the earliest and most visible signs of communism's collapse and the transition to an economy that was no longer state controlled but responded to the demands of the marketplace.
- From The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government And The Marketplace That Is Remaking The Modern World by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw
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