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The Rise and Fall of the The Soviet Economy: An Economic History of the USSR from 1945

Book information

Publisher
Longman / Pearson Education Limited
Year
2003
ISBN
0582299586, 9780582299580
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13336761 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
292\292
Time added
2014-11-01 18:06:51

Description

Why did the Soviet economic system fall apart? Did the economy simply overreach itself through military spending? Was it the centrally-planned character of Soviet socialism that was at fault? Or did a potentially viable mechanism come apart in Gorbachev's clumsy hands? Does its failure mean that true socialism is never economically viable? The economic dimension is at the very heart of the Russian story in the twentieth century. Economic issues were the cornerstone of  soviet ideology and the soviet system, and economic issues brought the whole system crashing down in 1989-91. This book is a record of what happened, and it is also an analysis of the failure of Soviet economics as a concept.

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