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Pages: 226
Authors: Moshe Lewin
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-04-16 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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The "Gorbachev phenomenon" is seen as the product of complex developments during the last seventy years—developments that changed the Soviet Union from a prim
The Gorbachev Phenomenon
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Moshe Lewin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-04-16 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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The "Gorbachev phenomenon" is seen as the product of complex developments during the last seventy years—developments that changed the Soviet Union from a prim
The Soviet Social Contract and why it Failed
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Linda J. Cook
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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This book is the first critical assessment of the likelihood and implications of such a contract. Linda Cook pursues the idea from Brezhnev's day to our own, an
Why Perestroika Failed
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Peter J Boettke
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-01-14 - Publisher: Routledge

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This argues that Perestroika failed as the result of the lack of understanding of market and political processes with reform processes representing
Stalinism and After
Language: en
Pages: 192
Authors: Alec Nove
Categories: Political Science
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Based on personal experience of life in the Soviet Union Nove explains the phenomenon of Stalinism and its aftermath. In highly readable style, Professor Nove t